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Compassion

Jungle love (oh-wee-oh-wee-oh)

November 11, 2011

Well. I have returned from the Amazon jungle, mis amigos. And am simultaneously relieved and yet strangely disappointed to report I did not see a single monkey or a snake. However, I do think I heard a band of monkeys off in the distance while I was trying to sleep last night. When Shaun Groves [...]

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It’s literally a jungle out here

November 10, 2011

Well. So here’s a sentence I never imagined I’d say, I’m currently in the Amazon Rainforest. But I’m not writing this from there because apparently the jungle isn’t known for its internet. Which really makes sense because I never once saw Diego pull a laptop out of his rescue pack. But in the meantime, I [...]

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All this talk of dreams makes me think of Van Halen

November 9, 2011

I will have y’all know that after a day of dust and climbing up a very steep hill in a dusty corner of Equador that I’m currently sitting in a hotel lobby listening to a piano player belt out the classic You Can Do Magic by America. Somewhere in there might be some symbolism but [...]

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And this is just the first day

November 8, 2011

I’ll just be honest. I have no idea where or how to begin this. So I’m going to do something completely novel and start at the beginning. I was born in Houston, Texas in 1971. What? Too much? Okay, so P dropped me off at the airport on Monday morning. I caught a flight to [...]

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Ready or not, Ecuador. Here we come.

November 7, 2011

All I know is it’s a good thing I got an extra hour this weekend because I needed it. Because even with the addition of the extra hour, I still feel like I am just barely getting everything done I need to do before I leave San Antonio at 10:30 Monday morning on a flight [...]

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