In honor of my birthday on Monday and the fact that Yuko and I went to see Juno which is all about birth and parenting, I’m finally sitting down to write about a topic that in Bali was both miraculous and heartbreaking. Birth: an ever-present theme for us during our time in Ubud. [...]
Archive for January, 2008
This Is My Baby Part 1
Posted in Bali, GAHP on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unfolding
Posted in Bali, GAHP on January 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wow, back in NYC. airplane travel: strange to traverse such huge distances and worlds in a relatively short time. Tonight I did the only sensible thing I could do to re-enter life in Brooklyn, walked down to my local Park Slope hang-out for spaghetti and meatballs and broccoli rabe.
It’s strange–I never thought I [...]
Narita
Posted in Bali, GAHP on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Strange to leave Bali behind after such a rich and lengthy stay. Am at the Narita (Tokyo Airport) internet cafe waiting to board my 14 hour flight back to NYC. Had a lovely send off last night with Bobbi, Frank and Dan and my new friends from Bumi Sehat. I know I [...]
East Bali Poverty Project
Posted in Bali, GAHP on January 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After our first day off (yay!) spent in Chandi Dasa, a beautiful fishing village, Dan and I headed back up to East Bali to work at the East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP). Run by David Booth, EBPP works to provide education and environmental resources to local families and villages. We were there to [...]
Mt. Abang
Posted in Bali, GAHP on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just back from an amazing few days in East Bali. Friday night after clinic Frank and I went to Tulamben to meet Dan who had been treating patients at the East Bali Poverty Clinic. We were met early Saturday morning by a crew from Bumi Sehat who had come to help us [...]
Typhoid Fever
Posted in Bali, GAHP on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It has been an intense time here in Bali. Two of our team members were sick so Dan and I were doing double duty. Then we found ourselves in the midst of a Typhoid outbreak with several folks from the larger community ill enough to require hospitalization. We were doing treatments with acupuncture and it [...]
Hello 2008
Posted in Bali, GAHP on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was saying to Chantia, one of the volunteer midwives, today that it is difficult to write about what is happening here because so much is happening here. Finding time to write is challenging as well as getting computer access–but the real issue is that there is just so much to tell, so many [...]
