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"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."

Marquis de Vauvenargues

ANNOUNCEMENT: Beyond Bordera Florida (Haiti Partners) announces affiliation!

Beyond Borders Florida (soon to be renamed Haiti Partners) has added us to their "official" website! Please feel free to take a gander:

Click here to view their page!

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"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."

Annie Lennox

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"Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse."

Francis Quarles

Beauty By God

On a recent trip to Haiti I was blessed... though that is probably too weak a word... to make a new friend. Her name is Judy Bork.

Judy is an amazing talent, both artistically and spiritually. For me personally, there exists an unspoken connection to her work as she captures and delivers the complexity of "darkness in brightness" and "brightness in darkness." Truthfully, I am still trying to find the right words for the emotions that it conjures within me... and that's what makes this art.

It speaks. It lingers. It resonates.


As I continue to grow, I find her work to be a reprieve from the noise of life. She has a way of finding those quiet spots that don't seem to exist anymore, then she collects them and brings them right to you.

If you get a chance, visit Judy's site (www.beautybygod.com) and consider purchasing some of her lovely prints and cards. I have no doubt, you will find peace within the frames of her work.

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"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."

John Constable

Please Help Our Friends!

Please take a moment (LITERALLY 2 MOUSE CLICKS)to help some friends of ours. They are in the running for some major success if they can garner enough votes. Visit http://tinyurl.com/qlhww4 and then BELOW THE VIDEO select 5 stars. That's it!

Thanks!
Luke

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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people."

Lillian Eichler Watson

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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."

George Santayana

CIMT Haiti on Flickr.

To stay abreast of our work through moving images, please feel free to subscribe to our new Flickr account.

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"If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."

Jewish Proverb

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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

Terry Pratchett

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"No man ever listened himself out of a job."

Calvin Coolidge

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"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

Voltaire

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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

William Ellery Channing

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"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail."

Judi Kruis

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"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world."

Henry David Thoreau

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"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."

Johnny Carson

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"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."

Dorothy Day

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"Do not build your future in deference to your past. For most of us, the past is made up of the most compelling reasons to quit or give up. STOP. Right now. Decide who it is that you are today or wish to be tomorrow, then spend every waking moment building from this point forward."

Luke Renner

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Thomas A. Edison

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"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend."

Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

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"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed."

Etty Hillesum

TECH - Cell phone of tomorrow?

Seems too cool to be true! <- Click there.

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"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

UPDATE: CIMT partners with Beyond Borders

On May 7, 2009, Beyond Borders (co-founded in 1993 by Dr. Tony Campolo) became our official partner! In addition to their public vote of confidence, Beyond Borders has agreed to act as a fiscal agent (meaning they can receive and process donations on our behalf). Fundamentally, this move represents a huge boost to our credibility and legitimately connects us with a highly experience, deeply committed, and socially responsible network of hundreds of people operating both on the ground in Haiti and within the continental United States!

As you may already know, we have been accepting our own funds through the generous assistance of ReNET, a non-profit network of churches in Indiana. While we are still planning to accept and process your monthly contributions ourselves, we understand that this new partnership with Beyond Borders will better position our organization within Haiti for an expanding range of opportunities and long-term growth.

We believe that this partnership is a huge step toward ensuring that our work in Haiti will be a lasting one!

With regard to this new partnership, there are too many people to thank. A very special thanks goes out to John Engle, Kent Annan, David Diggs, Jonathan Haggard, Kevin Koser and to all of the members of the Beyond Borders, Beyond Borders Florida, and Limyé Lavi staff for their enthusiastic embrace of what we are doing in Haiti. It cannot be overstated to say that we are incredibly impressed by all that you are doing and are therefore deeply honored by your vote of confidence in us. We look forward to learning from you, growing together, and sharing in many meaningful experiences with you all.

We do not take partnerships lightly and have thus far been blessed with many meaningful relationships over the years. GLOW Ministries International, for example, has been a long-time friend of our work and an ongoing supporter of what we do as they continue to faithfully serve Haiti in rich and meaningful ways. The addition of Beyond Borders, Beyond Borders Florida, and Limyé Lavi as partners is welcomed with open and enthusiastic arms and stands as testimony to our commitment to remaining accountable, connected, and relevant in Haiti.

Please stay tuned as this relationship continues to deepen and new and exciting projects begin to develop.

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"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

BIZARRE - TV's fullest potential

We're not too sure this is TV at it's fullest potential. What do you think?

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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Bill Cosby

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"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."

Warren Beatty

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"It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame."

Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

NOTABLE TWEETS

Music video: Cité Soleil - Beautiful people - Help us spread: http://tinyurl.com/qv43dj

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"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt."

William Van Horne

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"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

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"Love truth, and pardon error."

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

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"I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it."

Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)

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"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

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"Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield."

Price Cobb

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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

BAD MEMORIES: Swine Flu & Haiti

With all this talk of swine flu, many who are close to Haiti are remembering a similar "epidemic" and the catastrophic price that Haitians had to pay in the 1980s.

According to the Lambi Fund of Haiti:

"In the 1980's the USA demanded that Haiti destroy all its pigs in a misguided effort to control swine flu. Unfortunately, this mandate destroyed the savings for many Haitian peasants. In Haiti a pig is like a savings bank. A family buys a piglet, raises it for a couple of years and then when they need extra money for tuition for their children or a medical emergency, they sell the fattened pig at market for a handy profit. When all the pigs were destroyed, many families lost their savings and have had difficulty recovering economically ever since."

In hindsight, scores of Haitian swine were destroyed and replaced with pigs that had not been raised in the harsh conditions of Haiti. The resulting "replacements" were simply unable to survive the same conditions that Haiti's pigs had evolved to handle. Much has been written on this failed attempt to "help" the Haitian people. Click here for some more information about this matter.