Posts Tagged ‘Colonia Palo Chino’
Juarez. A day in the life…
The darkness of our world will try to smother the light, so we have to surround ourselves with people who make us shine brighter. -Irresistible Revolution Saturday morning. We woke up a little frazzled from the week of relentless office-work we had been doing, stuffed into our dark little office that could have as easily been in any [...]
May 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
The Desert Future
I hear of words like ‘compassion fatigue’…. And I have to tell you that the concept nauseates me. That we who have so much can even contemplate tiring of reaching out to those of our human family who have absolutely nothing, is absolutely incomprehensible to my little brain. ~Maithri Goonetilleke – The Soaring Impulse Blog [...]
April 5th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Compadres in the Desert
Ideological commitment rings hollow if it is unconnected to vivid relationships with people who are suffering and oppressed. We cannot effectively think or act on behalf of people who are only an abstraction. Those who wish to see more of reality must be willing to really know those who are oppressed. Bernard T. Adeney From the [...]
October 19th, 2008 by Matt Lindsey
May 25th, 2009 by Misty Lindsey