Comments on: Peace Corps http://dominicp.com/wp/2008/02/16/peace-corps/ I want you to know. Tue, 22 May 2012 22:48:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: ellie http://dominicp.com/wp/2008/02/16/peace-corps/#comment-70 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:31:47 +0000 http://dominicp.com/wp/2008/02/16/peace-corps/#comment-70 but maybe it's positive that you learned all that. and you can bring it back here. and share it with all the rich white americans that think they know what's best for the world even though for the most part they've never seen it? that seems like it has the potential to be a hugely positive thing? i always thought that was the best thing that could come out of something like the peace corps - and to some extent its selfish for sure in that it's benefitting you personally more than the people there personally.. perhaps... but if you can bring those experiences back and share that knowledge and use it to affect policy change in, for example, the way we give aid to malawi, then in the long run it benefits those people you went there to help? yea? maybe i'm just crazy :P glad i have your blog again... is good to read. we will have to sit down sometime when you return and have a beer. i'd love to chat about your reflections on malawi. going to cape town was a pretty interesting experience for me. but maybe it’s positive that you learned all that. and you can bring it back here. and share it with all the rich white americans that think they know what’s best for the world even though for the most part they’ve never seen it?

that seems like it has the potential to be a hugely positive thing? i always thought that was the best thing that could come out of something like the peace corps - and to some extent its selfish for sure in that it’s benefitting you personally more than the people there personally.. perhaps… but if you can bring those experiences back and share that knowledge and use it to affect policy change in, for example, the way we give aid to malawi, then in the long run it benefits those people you went there to help? yea?

maybe i’m just crazy :P

glad i have your blog again… is good to read. we will have to sit down sometime when you return and have a beer. i’d love to chat about your reflections on malawi. going to cape town was a pretty interesting experience for me.

]]> by: christam http://dominicp.com/wp/2008/02/16/peace-corps/#comment-66 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:18:03 +0000 http://dominicp.com/wp/2008/02/16/peace-corps/#comment-66 i find that you never do become satisfied with being unsatisfied, you just get too busy or too tired to care much. it feels 100% wrong when you have the time to reflect on it, but so much of life is spent just making it. at least, it's so with the decisions i have under my belt. it is however true that you begin to notice the "little things" - the way the light falls through trees in fall, or the way your son breathes when he sleeps, or the warm feeling that comes with the taste of something rich and sweet. those little things make life worth living for the time in the doldrums. i find that you never do become satisfied with being unsatisfied, you just get too busy or too tired to care much. it feels 100% wrong when you have the time to reflect on it, but so much of life is spent just making it. at least, it’s so with the decisions i have under my belt. it is however true that you begin to notice the “little things” - the way the light falls through trees in fall, or the way your son breathes when he sleeps, or the warm feeling that comes with the taste of something rich and sweet. those little things make life worth living for the time in the doldrums.

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