Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel, Both a beautiful and tragic story. You, and Phillip, provide many lessons for us. Among them; the lessons on how to truly give as well as accept. Your ability to walk this path, with such clear eyes, leaves me speechless. Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07 On Jan 24, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Daniel Ridings wrote: > Some of you who know me know that I work a lot in Africa. In the past > it was Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa. Now it is Malawi. > > I met a man, Phillip Tambala: > > http://dlridings.se/blog/2007/12/12/a-little-report-from-malawi/ > > After the initial reaction of "oh-no-not-another-beggar", I realized I > was dealing with a special man. He was industrious, focused (on his > family) and generous. Besides his own immediate family, he took on > many orphans. > > I don't give away money. That's useless. I do things. We had our > little projects. A house, crops, things like that. > > http://dlridings.se/blog/2008/02/14/bought-a-roof-on-my-lunch-break/ > > Phillip died a couple (now few if a couple is more than two) of months > ago. Malaria. Basically, that meant his family would probably starve > to death. > > I'm now a farmer. Ask me about the hideous prices of fertilizer that > is required in order to make gene manipulated corn to grow, and I can > tell you. I finance about 12 acres of corn (and beans). If any of you > get a chance, that is the way to help. Things are looking good and if > it keeps up (the rains have come), there will be enough of a harvest > to feed the family the whole year with a surplus that can be sold to > finance next year's crop. > > I'm going back in a couple of weeks and am taking prints with me. > Here's a sample. > > http://dlridings.se/lightroom/tambala/index.html > > Political: those of you who know me know that I would never praise > George W. Bush, a catastrophe for the world, without reason. But > locally, in Africa, he has been a blessing. Not a blessing in > disguise, but an outright, full-fledged blessing. I hope Obama can at > least hold the course, a difficult task in its own. When it comes to > US politics in Africa, Bush is a hard act to follow. > > Now ... just waiting for that little fever top from the yellow fever > vaccination and I'm off. > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information