China Revisited - Part 3
dated 2008-12-01 | posted in columns | topic Travel | permanent link
China Revisited: Part 3: Tibet
On the sleek China Air Airbus A319 flight from Chengdu to Tibet’s Autonomous Region capital, Lhasa , Don and I told the orange clad monk sitting near us about the Dali Lama’s two recent visits to Lisbon. Others on the flight stared beyond the shiny silver wing as we flew over snow covered mountains. A Swedish woman told me she worried about the recent uprisings and hoped we wouldn’t have any political rest ...
Letters to Santa
dated 2008-12-14 | posted in columns | topic Charity | permanent link
Last year I watched Rodolfo open his Christmas present in his Village home at the Aldeia SOS I Bicesse ((http://www.aldeias-sos.org/ ) . The wrapping was shiny red, the green ribbon tightly curled and the present of medium size. He tore through the paper and held up a grey knit sweater. The white card with a Santa pulling reindeers read " Bom Natal." The envelope said, “Boy, 9"
He tried on the sweater, rolled up the sleeves, a few inches ...