Monday--long day

We'll be leaving soon for Irene's house so I don't have long but we had a very good, busy day today. If we weren't visiting in the homes of the poorest of the poor this afternoon, we were very close--certainly in the lower percentages. There really aren't words. We were visiting in the homes of many of the grandmothers and mothers of children in the ISAC scholarship program. So they're some of the kids some of you are sponsoring. Thank you from those children and their caregivers. They are hard-working women of courage who are doing the best they can to care for their children and grandchildren.

David is composing a real update/report and I'll try to send it out tomorrow since we'll be in town more of the day tomorrow. Irene's mom and two sisters came over last night and joined us for supper. Monica wanted to know how Lexie and Seth are doing. We saw her a lot more last year. Irene prepared a traditional meal of matoke, rice, posho, goat meat, cabbage, greens, and it seems like I'm missing something. Oh, avocado. We had her mom and sisters tell funny stories about Irene and we got out Irene's photo albums of her wedding and introduction so the kids were able to see pics of their dad. It was good. Irene wasn't up to doing that last year--the grief was just too raw.

Dr. Ganus is around some. I got to give him a message from Cliff who'd written me from China--that was fun. He did a radio program last night but we didn't know it so we didn't listen.

Ok, gotta go, love you guys, mj