tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324844381587715946.post8573382256074814702..comments2024-03-25T12:17:44.368-07:00Comments on Karen Kaye in South Africa: Thursday, August 12 2009Karen Kayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915108169277149393noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324844381587715946.post-36094904933249261452009-08-30T13:36:05.848-07:002009-08-30T13:36:05.848-07:00Just checking in, Karen. It is the first I have be...Just checking in, Karen. It is the first I have been able to access your blog. Hope all is well.<br />BarbaraAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00616223464682793231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324844381587715946.post-33961791039665226692009-08-16T09:57:31.073-07:002009-08-16T09:57:31.073-07:00Hi Karen,
I swear your posts are so good, I hope ...Hi Karen, <br />I swear your posts are so good, I hope these get saved you could write a book with all these posts in them. Your descriptions of everything are wonderful. I hope you can take a picture of the little girl you befriended, I would love to see it some day. You are doing a good thing. We all miss you:)<br />TamAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09875628057741262244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324844381587715946.post-8403831912882832722009-08-14T14:29:30.918-07:002009-08-14T14:29:30.918-07:00It is so good to hear that you are safe and happy....It is so good to hear that you are safe and happy. I love the images you have created for us to contemplate as we think of you there. I can see you and your family sitting around that fire and I can see your Mma's hands as she moves the coals. Can you provide some more detailed descriptions of your family and Dimakatso when you have some time? I imagine Dimakatso running ahead of you pointing to everything and looking back at you hoping you are catching on! It is so good to know you are with a group of people who are awed and delighted by your presence. Jody read me your post again as I was at work and did not wish to wait until I could get to a pc to read it. <br />I love that you have found a place (a pond) to connect with your natural surroundings and meditate. I hope you can find time to be alone. <br />It will be wonderful to hear your impressions of the Apartheid Museum and the mall, for that matter. <br />I laughed out loud when I read about your Mma sweeping the dirt mostly because I know how you hate to do things twice! That is hilarious!<br />Here's to your finding beauty in the pointless and here's to your finding the pointlessness in beauty.<br />Love you<br />Deannadeannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06859160117149012787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324844381587715946.post-4078514721566736272009-08-14T10:33:28.205-07:002009-08-14T10:33:28.205-07:00It is so GOOD to hear from you, and you really sou...It is so GOOD to hear from you, and you really sound content and happy. What a blessing that is.<br /><br />I have found the approximate site of Bela Bela on the map. Also read a bit about Warmbad, which is also called Warmbath because of the hot springs. Probably a very nice place to visit.<br /><br />Your host family sounds wonderful, another blessing. Please thank them all for the caring they are giving from your American mother. Seems to me that God is watching over you!! Your plumbing is better than I imagined-(a public hole in the ground of which I have seen photos ) yuch. We never minded the outhouse and hauling water at our cabin. Felt we were blessed to have the convenience of doing it. I did not, however, like cooking over an open flame!! And wow, you are so clean. Are the many baths because that is their custom, or because they think you are in the habit of much cleanliness? And SO much work.<br /><br />Sounds like you are very busy, and will probably get busier as time goes on. Long walks? I have seen lots of photos on the web, and the scenery is gorgeous, and very lush in places....you must be in the dust bowl. I still want to know if you have seen the baobab tree.<br /><br />Your name, Moleboeng, is definitely YOUR name, why didn't I think of it when I named you? Will it always be your name, or is it a name your family gave you?<br /><br />Everyone here in Kentucky is well and happy. No illnesses, etc., thank goodness. And all are happy to receive your news. <br /><br />Our college girls are headed to school in the next week or two. Mom is getting multiple copies of your news. I have heard from 3 friends/relitaves who have copied to take to her. I mailed her one yesterday. Have you received any snail mail? <br /><br />We have not had the torential rains that occurred in Louisville. We got about 2" when Louisville got 6". Our Philip lives near UL, and had water almost to his seats. The clean up cost was $400. My poor tomato plants have the "mange" and most are finished. From the weather. It has been hot and very humid or raining all summer. I have dried about 2 bushels, and still get enough to share and eat. very yummy. Peppers are producing very well. cucumbers are done, but I have replanted and the plants are about 6" tall. <br /><br />A reply from one of my dear friends was so glad to receive your message, mainly because she, and another are reading a series of novels set in Botswana. She said the language setswana, is spoken in the area where the stories are taking place. She said the words mma and rra are in the books, and she and another friend had wondered what they meant. She was so excited that she now knows. I have ordered some of the books.<br /><br />Also I turned on the tv this morning, to one of the educational shows, to see an interview of Hugh Masekela. He is a very famous musician from South Africa, and was much involved in apartheid. He had to leave SA during the uprising, and came to the states, wrote and travelled the world with his music about mandella and the situation in SA. He returned home around 1990 and is still very involved in politics. Very interesting and educational, and surprising that it was on today.<br /><br />My brain is spinning with all the news from you and what I want to say to you. But I must close for now, and will get back later. Please know how much you are loved, and how much you are inspiring others. We miss you greatly, but are so proud of the work you are doing. And you are a "gift from God".<br />MomAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02506586023450009526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8324844381587715946.post-44802315417230632942009-08-13T13:29:11.690-07:002009-08-13T13:29:11.690-07:00Hey girlfriend. Thanks for that post. I LOVED it...Hey girlfriend. Thanks for that post. I LOVED it! I love hearing about your host family. When you get restationed, will you live with a family then, or have your own place? Did Tammy tell you she got married on August 3rd? Her and Gary got married in Kill Devil Hills (Outer Banks), North Carolina while on vacation!! I'm giving her a backyard reception on Sept. 5th. Wish you could come :( Love, NancyNancy Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09404699316948636322noreply@blogger.com