life has been heavy this week. i find myself far from family, who are hearing difficult news and processing what it all means. here in bogota we found out that the daughter of jenny neme (justapaz director) and ricardo pinzón (mencoldes director) has leukemia. on sunday she went into the hospital and they found bleeding in her brain and diagnosed her with leukemia, couldn't stop the bleeding in the brain and juana camila (14 years old) died yesterday. this is after finding out 3 weeks ago that ricardo (father) has a mass growing which is most likely cancerous.
it feels like cancer is all around and i am convinced that it is an environmental disease. our society puts out so many chemicals into the air, we kill the earth and we eat all genetically modified foods, its no wonder there is so much cancer - we, humanity (and especially those of us in the north, i believe...), are killing each other and we're not even changing directions. i pray that godde will teach us how to change, how to work for peace in the way we eat, in the way we travel, in the way we create, in the way we participate in technology, let alone in the way we treat one another in relationship.

in daily news, seed is going well and time is flying. i bought tickets last night for the seeders and myself - 1st of september i will start taking seeders to their locations and will be finally moving into my house in sincelejo - im very much looking forward to that! last week i also moved in with beth miller and neil richer, mccers here in bogota. its been wonderful to live with them - they are great friends and lovely housemates. i hope i never live alone again! its so nice to come home to people with whom i can cook, talk, read, watch movies, do activities, etc.

my thoughts and prayers are with you all, especially with the family. its hard to be far away at times like these. i love you all.