An international accompanier's account of her time in a Colombian community engaged in non-violent resistance to the decades old armed conflict.
"Justice...limps along, but it gets there all the same." -Colombian Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel García Márquez
My flight leaves tomorrow morning at 10AM and I am packed for the year. (One of these bags is filled only with peanut butter.) I fly from Pittsburgh to Orlando. Orlando to Panama City and land at the Bogotá airport around 9pm. The great adventure has almost begun! My next post will be from Colombia.
posted by AJ @ 11:22 PM
My blog is small and humble so you don't confuse it with mountains. I headed down old South America way in November '06 to begin my adventure as an International Human Rights Accompanier in the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartadó. Why am I doing this? What is this that I am doing? What is a peace community? Will I be able to survive a year with no refrigeration and thus no cheese? This blog will attempt to answer these important questions and more.
2 Comments:
Just received a lovely handwritten letter via snail mail (remember them) from AJ, mailed from PA before she left. It made me cry. You are in my thoughts and prayers daily. Be safe.
kathy paglia
Aegis,
Hey--Happy Thanksgiving from here in the States. We're all thinking of you.
Take care of yourself.
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