David Joannes
175SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Excerpt from Letters To Lorna From Liberia by David Joannes Hour:93 “Go get yourself some coffee, babe,” Ray Joe tells me this morning at breakfast. That’s not the first time he has called me that. “Hey babe, you get some good shots at the orphanage today?” “Um, yes.” The first few times it threw me…
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206SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Excerpt from The Memories I Made Up by David Joannes The Beggar I have to describe my memories with words, inadequate as I know they are. I’m sure you know the feeling too. We see the mental picture that we are attempting to explain as clear as it was then. The colors. The smells. The…
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225SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List As the early morning sunlight splinters through closed roller blinds, at the groggy cusp of awakening—eyelids blinking and squinting away the bright—I often awake, wondering where I am. A mental map slowly emerges, of Asian city streets, of twists and turns through alleyways and neighborhoods. “Jinse Boulevard to Beijing Road,” I mull over in…
read more64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List We need your help to raise $5,000 by March 31, 2012 for Within Reach Global’s growing ministry to unreached college students in China! Within Reach Global is in a financial bind to meet the needs of The Hub outreach center. The Hub serves two purposes: First, it is a place for local leaders and…
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