Sarah Shirk: Welcome!

01 October 2007

Welcome!

Since I began full-time work with Christian Peacemaker Teams in January 2007, I've gotten involved in a number of exciting projects in various parts of North America, and now the Middle East. I have trouble keeping up with my own schedule, so I can only imagine how difficult it must be for you! Hence this blog... I'll post photos and reflections from my travels, which you can read (or not) at your own leisure. I'd love to have you along for the journey!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Great idea, Sarah! I will be looking forward to reading about your adventures ;-) Safe travels!; October 1, 2007 at 4:24 AM
Anonymous said...: This is a good way for us to follow your diverse involvements, but hey, when you get back, how about an excursion to visit your relatives in Goshen (IN)? Blessings in all you do!; October 1, 2007 at 7:29 AM

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –Mark Twain

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” –Maya Angelou

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” –Cesare Pavese

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” –Mark Jenkins