A flower catches my attention out of the corner of my eye. Brilliant red, and surrounded by fluttering clouds of small butterflies of every different shade and hue. As my senses are captivated by this scene, my foot slips out from under me, and I am falling. This is not an uncommon occurrence. Morne Michele,… more →
Monthly Archives: September 2016
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Breaking Bread with the Haitian Mountains
Photo courtesy of Dr. Alyssa Summers I have felt myself hit a wall, which cannot be breached, a mountain, which cannot be scaled. This obstruction forms before me as soon as the words slip out of my mother’s, father’s, friend’s mouths, as they ask me, “How was Haiti?”. “It was good”, is my first response,… more →