tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785082020454101981.post3431260869745176443..comments2009-07-21T23:03:16.218-07:00Comments on Wilgus in Malawi: Latter DaysWilgushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832001000243197264noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785082020454101981.post-63418047315713929712008-11-16T16:18:00.000-08:002008-11-16T16:18:00.000-08:00i love you and i love what is inside of you. i ca...i love you and i love what is inside of you. i can't wait to see w/my eyes and hear w/my ears. You are grand!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590446697999452182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785082020454101981.post-3939125061898965912008-10-22T14:08:00.000-07:002008-10-22T14:08:00.000-07:00Alex. Wow. I have now read your post 5 times, and ...Alex. Wow. I have now read your post 5 times, and I'm barely digesting it all. Its beautifully honest and painfully challenging. Thank you for sharing this. I have a million thoughts and ideas which will have to be discussed in person (!), but an idea that keeps resounding in my head:<BR/>Is the reentry from art/science/whatever into the mundane so difficult for us because we have effectively divorced art from the dreariness of life. Instead of using art as an escape, should we not be seeing life as a means to experience art? In a sense it is a reorienting of the lenses. The first lens is Christ, the second life, the third art. <BR/><BR/>This idea is in its infancy, but I thought I would share.SMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04132143897169112410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785082020454101981.post-34134865367934002762008-10-22T09:11:00.000-07:002008-10-22T09:11:00.000-07:00alex,i don't even know what to say other than than...alex,<BR/>i don't even know what to say other than thanks for writing what you are thinking so eloquently, and so deeply honest. <BR/><BR/>i can't wait for you to come back, and i pray your last few weeks will be just as revealing as your experience has been up til now. <BR/><BR/>love,<BR/>ashleyashley elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483626106750354043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5785082020454101981.post-79273737718482602672008-10-21T11:52:00.000-07:002008-10-21T11:52:00.000-07:00hi this is great writing and i love your quotes......hi this is great writing and i love your quotes... particularly that last Bonhoeffer one. you're obviously feeling pretty disconnected from the community you live in... which is pretty normal for someone about to leave. someone told me the landscape fades as departure grows closer. but i'm not sure i buy that reentry bullshit... the truth is real relationships with people are the same wherever you are in the world. the secret is to remember this and not to generalise. its such a trap.. 'I haven't met a single depressed Malawian. There is no suicide here.' is definitely not the case. there are rich malawians, just as there are poor americans. beware of the dangerous 'they', 'they know who they are so fully that they don't even have to ask the question?'. who is they? i've thought about this a bit and posted on my blog... we are all people and we all struggle with the challenges of life. i'm serious this one fact may make all the difference to your 'reentry'. its fantastic that you are handing over to someone from here and i am sure Malawi has taught you lessons that will change your life.Acaciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03148234753192860981noreply@blogger.com