Haiti Life 2/3

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Celebrating Beauty Amid the Imperfectness of our Lives...

A Snapshot of Port au Prince Haiti...

Palm trees silhouetted against blue skies... goats and cows digging through the trashy streets... career ladies walking to work through muddy streets in high heels...

and bright pink bougainvillea

blooming vibrantly and endlessly,

spilling over dingy white block walls.

The Danger of a Single Story

Even as I opened my eyes this morning at 7 o'clock, my subconscious was reminding me that I had nothing prepared for my language class...

Quiara

Jul 31, 20215 min read

Camping

The house is stifling. Outside A cool breeze blowing The neighbors music Endless One song Makes you want to dance The next one Soothing...

Quiara

Jul 19, 20212 min read

Getting Ahead

I've been thinking this evening about "getting ahead" and what it means. Hopefully, when we say this we're just referring to common sense...

Quiara

Jul 6, 20214 min read

Wedding Weekend

We had a busy week. A wedding, a job interview, a funeral, multiple car problems, and the country is out of gas and diesel. I just got...

Quiara

Jun 26, 20213 min read

Stories I Do Not Know

I was feeling a bit nervous and alone that day... sitting all alone on the sidewalk waiting on the chaos inside the office to subside. It...

Quiara

Jun 11, 20211 min read

My Hands are Open

Quiara

Jun 8, 20210 min read

Journey of a Tap-Tap

The streets of Port-au-Prince are full of tap-taps. Many Haitians use them every day as their only way to get from point A to point B....

Quiara

May 1, 20217 min read

Fish, Kites, & Choir Practice

Last Thursday night, my husband was all the sudden showing me these palm twigs, saying he was gonna make "kap" because he needed to be...

Quiara

Apr 11, 20215 min read

When Plans Change

It was Sunday morning, and I woke with the thought, "Are we going to the airport or to church?" Because, you see, my friends Sharla,...

Quiara

Mar 27, 20216 min read

Whither Thou Goest

{This post was written the first week of February. Yikes... guess it's outdated.} Thursday afternoon I got two calls, one from Zeze's...

Quiara

Mar 20, 20216 min read

And Then They All Went Home

"And now we're supposed to go back to our normal lives. That's what people do. They have these amazing experiences with another person, and

Quiara

Jan 3, 20215 min read

Deye Mon Gen Mon

Sometimes my mind holds thoughts like a valley holds a cloud of fog.

Quiara

Nov 28, 20207 min read

Date Night

The time to leave is set for 5:00 but I straggle in at 5:10, discouraged with my backpack full of schoolwork and tired from driving and...

Quiara

Oct 24, 20203 min read

Giving

I wanted to write this long ago when we had that Sunday school lesson about generosity. I've thought about it alot since then. We had a...

Quiara

Oct 9, 20205 min read

The Barfing Toilet: Our Own Minor Version of Jonah and the Whale

Saturdays in my life our so full of activity. This morning I groaned around and rolled out of bed at 7:30 because the neighbor was...

Quiara

Sep 20, 20207 min read

Heaviness

That is the word I would use to describe this last week. Monday we got the word that Mikal, a youth guy living just down the road from...

Quiara

Sep 7, 20206 min read

On a Slightly More Housewifely Note...

The goats have settled in nicely, except for one day they somehow got out as we were leaving for work and neither of us noticed. How did...

Quiara

Aug 29, 20204 min read

New Possessions

We are the proud owners of a couple new things... Two goats... Black is female and the brown is male. They are doing what they do best......

Quiara

Aug 17, 20206 min read

Sunday in Blanchard

I've been wanting to write a bit about a Sunday over here. We had really good church last Sunday and lo and behold it's Wednesday and...

Quiara

Aug 12, 20208 min read

The Starting of Wife Life

I'm sitting with my feet in a bucket of lavendar oil water and eating granola from my cousin Briana and drinking strong black iced coffee...

Quiara

Jul 25, 20204 min read

Pinchina

CREATIVE CO.

Celebrating Beauty Amid the Imperfectness of our Lives...

The Danger of a Single Story

Camping

Getting Ahead

Wedding Weekend

Stories I Do Not Know

My Hands are Open

Journey of a Tap-Tap

Fish, Kites, & Choir Practice

When Plans Change

Whither Thou Goest

And Then They All Went Home

Deye Mon Gen Mon

Date Night

Giving

The Barfing Toilet: Our Own Minor Version of Jonah and the Whale

Heaviness

On a Slightly More Housewifely Note...

New Possessions

Sunday in Blanchard

The Starting of Wife Life

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