I love the mountains! A weekend with Fiona Terry and her two adorable children. John, Leaves, Pat and Quail, good whiskey, fire in the fireplace... what more do you need?
Make sure that the wood is ready for the fireplace!
Fiona is loving her kids!
So....what is it about this woman and her kids. Fiona is a visiting faculty member to the Kenan School of Ethics and Duke Global Health Center. She is an amazing woman, and she has given me a breath of new life. She has worked with Doctors without Borders (MSF) the International Committee for the Red Cross, and others, and has done so in refugee camps, in terrifying war situations, and in places that most of us would say a big NO! But there she is, literally on fire with her desire to slowly give us (in our working group) a new way of thinking. Ponder carefully what you are doing in a placement abroad, ponder carefully if you are hurting or helping, ponder carefully what the best way to work with refugees and internally displaced persons and provide them with safety...not to make life worse for them and to put yourself in such harm's way that you cause a mess. These are new ways of thinking and they make sense. Think in other words, in a different way and then act on it. WOW. For an old lady like me, this is challenging. Especially for an Irish old lady like me. Then, to top it off. She is so much fun. She is delightful, funny, charming and maybe a little sarcastic. But, she has the neatest kids, lovely, polite, creative, and actually pretty nice to each other. The natural fit for the weekend was to have our dear friends Pat and Quail over. What a terrific time. I just wish I were 29+ and could sign up for all the possibilities that are right in front of all of us for foreign service...and this time in the right ways. On the other hand, maybe we were guided by instinct and haven't done so bad after all!
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