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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. Posts tagged ‘Childhood’. This morning I looked through an old album of photos of when you were little and thought about how fast time has passed. All mothers do this. When our children leave home, we get all sentimental and miss those years when our kids still needed us to tie their shoes and put on Bandaids on bruised knees. Now, you are going to live life by yourself. All by yourself. You must floss. And how about sunscreen? When one is as young as ...
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The Ugly Face of Suspicion | oddnygumaer.com
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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. The Ugly Face of Suspicion. By oddnygumaer on June 18, 2015. He was surprised by our friendliness. I was surprised that he was surprised. We only offered him some tea and bought a book. It wasn’t such a big deal was it? We are appalled by the stories we hear. Are they rejected, spat at and told to go back where they come from because people know them intimately? Suspicion is an attitude that has grown from insecurity and fear. There is the fear of ...
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Aung San Suu Kyi | oddnygumaer.com
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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. Posts tagged ‘Aung San Suu Kyi’. Playing it fair, or remaining a bully. Life should be a little more fair for people like her. Having had kids for a while, I have learned some things. One of them is that you have to play fair. There are rules to all games, and if somebody breaks them, he or she cannot be trusted. And kids don’t want to play with the ones who don’t play by the rules. I think this is pretty straight forward. Unless you live in Burma.
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Baking | oddnygumaer.com
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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. Posts tagged ‘Baking’. Explaining God and understanding falling in love. I could look at the sunset and marvel at the beauty, or I could just say: There is a chemical reaction in the sky that is causing this to happen. The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious,. Said Albert Einstein. I agree with him. Some people try to explain falling in love. If he can no longer feel amazement, he is as good as dead. The writing is on the wall: We suck at...
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Children | oddnygumaer.com
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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. Posts tagged ‘Children’. The blanket mafia and the Syrian refugees unite. Farah, she keeps a cigarette behind her ear and when she laughs it sounds like beads falling. Her long, black curls are tied in a knot, kind of, but not really. She was as excited as I was when we found a secondhand shop with cheap army jackets. This mom was eight months pregnant when she ran away from Syrian. Waiting to receive a blanket. My own black t-shirt and army-green pant...
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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. We met a prince. Tonight we met a man whose grandfather was once a foreign minister and his great grandfather was a prince. He himself runs a small restaurant in a small town in northern Myanmar. He is from the Shan people group. We are going to visit his home and hear more of his story later this week. We also ate fish salad, tea leaf salad, eggplant salad and cucumber sesame seed salad. It went great with Myanmar beer and some Burmese dance music.
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Thoughts on the Holocaust | oddnygumaer.com
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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. Thoughts on the Holocaust. By oddnygumaer on January 28, 2015. But I still wonder why the day is not a bigger deal. Why don’t we stop the world on January 27th? Why don’t we all take some time off and reflect? Why did it happen? Why didn’t anybody stop the massacres? Why weren’t there more people who spoke up and who overcame their fear? Why did so many innocent people have to die in the most gruesome way? How can we stop it from happening again? Yeste...
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Books | oddnygumaer.com
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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. Posts tagged ‘Books’. This morning I looked through an old album of photos of when you were little and thought about how fast time has passed. All mothers do this. When our children leave home, we get all sentimental and miss those years when our kids still needed us to tie their shoes and put on Bandaids on bruised knees. Now, you are going to live life by yourself. All by yourself. You must floss. And how about sunscreen? When one is as young as you ...
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Bible | oddnygumaer.com
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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. Posts tagged ‘Bible’. Explaining God and understanding falling in love. I could look at the sunset and marvel at the beauty, or I could just say: There is a chemical reaction in the sky that is causing this to happen. The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious,. Said Albert Einstein. I agree with him. Some people try to explain falling in love. If he can no longer feel amazement, he is as good as dead. The writing is on the wall: We suck at ...
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How far does your love reach? | oddnygumaer.com
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Be real. Love life. Partners Relief and Development. How far does your love reach? By oddnygumaer on May 20, 2015. It hit me that she was just like me. The result of this demeaning treatment and the inhumane conditions they are forced to live in can now be seen on the Andaman ocean. Since this year begun an estimated 25,000 Rohingya have bought a ticket on a boat that is the promise to freedom. The problem is that no freedom, just more suffering, is in store for them. We can give them bottles of water...
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