Let me begin by saying… These are the people, this is the moment, here.we.are. I have been feeling as if I owe you, big time. I feel like I owe you lots of images like this one. Images that allow you to see for yourself what the families who grow coffee in Burundi look like. Here’s …
Coffee. People. Potential.
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Drivin’ ’round town…
Please don’t tell any of the AK47 toting police officers in town that we did this. They don’t seem to like our cameras. At all. What you are seeing is me dropping Ben at a government coffee cupping lab, driving around and then picking him back up. Quality isn’t great, but hope you can still get …
the foreigners
My mind goes blank when I think of ways to describe this world to you. Completely blank. There are no words, which is why it is my temptation to just go silent. I am fighting it. For me, for you, for everyone. Finding a way to communicate to you how different this life is from …
Coffee Cupping
Yesterday Myles and Neo and I followed Ben to his coffee lab. We did our best to destroy his lab and his coffee cupping notes, but we also managed to shoot a little. If you ever wondered what coffee cupping looks like… well, lets be real, you probably never have. But, we made a video …
You moved your family where?
We have a great big hope. But this week it seems like a great big stinky bog is attempting to snatch away our hope and our joy along with it. Burundi can swoop in and make you question things. Things like your sanity at bringing your family… To where? Or, will our vision for holistic …
Tomorrow We Jump…
… and I just wanted you to know. It has been a fight, a gigantic BATTLE to get to this point. We are sick (literally) and tired. This journey has catapulted me beyond any tiredness I have ever known. Tonight I cried in the hollow space of our little house. I walked around the empty …