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I headed up to the north coast this two weeks ago to visit Andrea and Matthew in La Ceiba and to visit the Finca in Trujillo.  It was a nice trip, though a bit rushed and quite frankly a bit wet.  It rained the whole time which isn’t entirely unexpected this time of year.  
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We’ve just returned from our trip to Florida and Honduras where we visited my family, the Farm and some friends in Honduras. Check out the photos on the link to the left where they normally are.
Peace,
Michael-John

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Note: A few months ago our website crashed and we lost our email listserve of those who wished to receive updates about our time in Honduras at the Farm of the Child. So failing that I wanted to send out a final update to my whole address book as we finish our time in Honduras [...]

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Friends-
“I didn’t ask to be conceived, in a loveless embrace. Still we learn to be a warm sun, in a very cold galaxy.”
- Beth Orton “Conceived”
Pedro came to us in 2001 a sad, sick, malnourished little boy. Passed from parents to aunt, to community member and finally to adoptive parents who brought him to the [...]

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Mom (and the rest of you folk too since it´s just easier to copy you all on that write a whole other email)-
So as usual I sat down to write you an email finally last Friday. Got it almost done and then the power went out in Trujillo. So here’s take two.
As for things here:
The [...]

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Lobster.
This, my friends, is the story of Lobster Day 2006.
Arriving at dinner on Friday night Erin apologized told us that due to an unexpected lobster donation that had to be attended to dinner would be late. It turns out someone had been caught over-fishing lobster in Trujillo Bay and their consequence was they had to donate the [...]

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“And you, my child shall be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare His way.”
- Canticle of Zechariah, Luke 1: 76. Zechariah, father of John the Baptist
Friends–
It is with great joy that Erika, Michael and I write to you about the birth of our newest family [...]

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Just a quick update from Honduras with the latest hurricane news. It´s been a busy week for us down at the finca. We heard about tropical storm Wilma on Monday night, went to a rain day schedule for school on Tuesday (where we have class indoors for one hour each grade level) because we heard [...]

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Since we left the states a year ago today for Central America I thought it would be a good opportunity for us to check in and email about life here on the farm. We’ll try for some lighter fair after the heavy tone of my last few emails.
Michael’s new vocabulary – Thursday night Michael and [...]

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“Hola, Oscaaar,” Michael’s enthusiasm manages to bring the briefest smile from Oscar our newest finca kid. I’m stuck in that moment between tears and laughter.
I wept because on Wednesday when he arrived at the finca at 14 months old he could cry no tears of his own because of his dehydration. Wracked by diarrhea and [...]

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