Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks George and Steve, and others too, I hope I've replied off-list. I've had a hard time keeping up lately. It was sad. But the way I figure, the best way to handle it, is just to go forward. The little girl who kept trekking of with my camera bag is his daughter. There's a portrait of the family in the LUG yearbook. There are so many of these stories, so many. The only way I can handle it is by doing the little I can. I'll report back in the beginning of March. I look forward to seeing the fields. Opens up new problems ... once it gets harvested I'll have to make sure the house is secured (doors and windows). Otherwise, people will break in and steal it from her. Thanks again. Daniel On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:24 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3@mac.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >