Curious Durias

Aidan (6): Dad. Do you know anybody who’s ever drawed a perfect circle?  Like, with their hand?

On The Go

The “out and about” link to your right (my left) is a place where we’ll be posting pictures from our camera phone as we’re, well, out and about.

Hope Lives, Week One

Week 1: The Poverty Of The Heart
Week 2: God Is Not Silent
Week 3: Understanding Poverty
Week 4: Prayer
Week 5: Be The Change

Tomorrow, Mindy and I are going to begin reading Hope Lives: A Journey Of Restoration by Amber Van Schooneveld. It’s a five-week study and the first week is called The Poverty Of The Heart. Van Schooneveld writes…

“The first step on the journey is to understand the poverty of the heart, to search our hearts and ask why it’s sometimes so hard to help those in need. How are things like materialism and individualism stifling compassion? On the journey, we’ll set down the burden of guilt and pick up God’s grace instead.”

We look forward to sharing our thoughts.

Haircut Boys

Photo NOT by Uncle Josh.

Take Your Kid To Work Day

Grandpa Bob took Makaena (9) to work with him today.  She was part of three meetings, one of which was a lunch meeting.  Makaena enjoyed the time and thought it was “really interesting.”  Oh.  And…

Makaena:  It was exhausting.  I couldn’t do it every day like Papa does.

Joshua (2) put his arm around…

…Brynne Brawley, looked over at Mindy, and said, “Dat my girl.”

Malaria

Malaria is known as “a plague of the poor” and I confess that I wouldn’t know much about the devastating consequences of the disease if I hadn’t started working for Compassion. We’re hosting a Malaria Intervention Webcast on World Malaria Day–Friday, April 25th. It’s only an hour, super informative, free, and everybody is invited. Hope to “see” you there.

Overheard Watching TV

Aidan (6): It looks like his eyebrows are under his eyes.

Remember, Ian’s family lives in Seattle.

Looking at a picture of herself and three friends…

Paige (5): My skin is brown.
Mindy: Because you’re half Filipino.
Paige (looks at the back of her hand, then the front of her hand.): …
Mindy: …
Paige: There are only brown people in Seattle.
Mindy: You only see brown people in Seattle.

Aunt Mindy and SoJo MoDo

Photo by Uncle Josh.