dominican republic

If everything happened as planned, by the time you read this, I will be in the air and on my way to the Dominican Republic. I get the opportunity to spend the next 7 days with a group from Cross Point as we continue to build the church/feeding center we sponsor.

The day after I come off the road is always a Sabbath - fancy Hebrew for “day off.” This here blog post is the only workish thing I’m doing today.  Which is easy.  It’s easy not to do anything.  The hard part is not thinking about all the stuff I’m not doing and all the people I’m inconveniencing and just plain irritating by doing all this not doing.

Was National Freshman of the Year, All-American, played for Team USA, tied for career school home runs with 49Baseball financed education Turned down six figures before attending Vandy "Gut instinct I needed to come to college" Family moved to USA from Dominican Republic "El Toro," "El Matatan" From Vanderbilt press release:Pedro Alvarez, third baseman for the Commodo

So, I was sitting here in my office being the very serious adult that I am.  Tweaking a web site’s code for a friend. Writing an article.  Reading the blogs of potential Dominican Republic travelers.  And I heard him.  His words crept up through the ventilation system and leaked into my office.  Jangly guitar and grizzly lyrics.

Torres: son of Peruvian immigrants, 3.9 GPA at Austin Peay, Purple Heart and Bronze StarEspaillat: came to Maury County from Dominican Republic, honors at Spring Hill HS, enlisted week before 9/11This Memorial Day, the Hispanic Nashville Notebook remembers two Hispanic servicemen who came to Tennessee before their names were added to the lists of the fallen:Army Lt. Richard Torres was the first

From Focus on the Family:

In March, Andre Lampkin, 20, was facing the amputation of his legs and arms. But an experimental treatment using his own stem cells to stimulate tissue growth is giving the former wide receiver hope after meningitis damaged his limbs.

Imagine there’s a man named Miguel.  Miguel was born in Haiti but works today on a sugar plantation in the Dominican Republic.  The plantation is owned by a U.S. corporation.

I’m sorry I haven’t been able to blog much from the Dominican Republic and I won’t be able to blog anything else after this for a day or so.  This is not a blogging trip.  It was a trip taken to shoot three small films telling the stories of sponsored children to music festival audiences.  Choosing which stories to tell, interviewing enough people to put the story together, sh