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February 11, 2013

News from Guatemala

Antigua, Guatemala  8AM Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 I’m waking up this morning in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (also known as Xela), realizing that it has suddenly been a week since I arrived. The time is going quickly, and it has been a whirlwind. Here are a handful of highlights from the last week: Camino Seguro — After […]

Filed Under: Guatemala, Observations Tagged With: Camino Seguro, Child-Aid, Guatemala, PEG Partners, Safe Passage

November 14, 2012

Very More Awesome

It has now been three weeks since my Guatemalan friends returned to El Tejar, and I’m just beginning to gain the perspective that a bit of distance provides. Our time together in North Carolina was rich, dense and fulfilling, and I know that I am not the only one who was deeply moved by it. […]

Filed Under: Guatemala, Observations, Peace Work, Uncategorized Tagged With: Guatemala, Lake Eden Arts Festival, Las Estrellas Musicales de El Tejar, LEAF, PEG Partners

February 5, 2012

What you did in Guatemala in 2011

This is the year-end letter to PEG donors telling them where their money went. I thought I’d share it with the rest of you, too. At the end of the year, it’s powerful to look back and see what has happened.

Filed Under: General Update, Guatemala, Slideshow Tagged With: Child-Aid, Guatemala, LEAF International, libraries, literacy, non-profit, PEG, PEG Partners, schools

August 8, 2011

Peace, Perigrinations, and Pete Seeger

Greetings from Holden Beach, NC, where I’m spending a few days with most of my family celebrating my Dad’s eightieth trip around the sun. Mason and Deanna are napping, so I thought I would take a few minutes to write a quick update. When they wake up, it will be time to teach Mason how […]

Filed Under: General Update, Music News, Peace Work Tagged With: AFSC, Dan Buttry, Greenbelt Festival, Guatemala, music, Nobel Peace Prize, peace, Pete Seeger

February 1, 2011

More pictures and news from Guatemala

More photos and stories from Guatemala, where I will be for the next few days, visiting schools and libraries which are supported by PEG Partners, the non-profit Deanna and I founded in 2004.

Filed Under: Guatemala, Peace Work, Slideshow Tagged With: Andrew Brown, David LaMotte, Guatemala, Guatemalan Schools, Karla Koll, PEG Partners

December 18, 2010

Back to Guatemala

I woke up early this morning — very early. I think it was due to too much caffeine yesterday. 4 AM was a good time to work on a few things with no chance of interruption, though, so I spent some time looking for plane tickets to Guatemala. I’ll be going back down to visit […]

Filed Under: General Update, Guatemala Tagged With: Guatemala, Johnsmith, PEG

October 20, 2008

Guate trip I

Da Guate It’s always good to be here, and renewing, even at a time like this when my heart is pulled strongly toward the US. With my dad in the hospital and my baby boy getting ready to make his grand appearance, there’s a lot to feel and think about these days. Hugs and songs […]

Filed Under: Guatemala Tagged With: David LaMotte, Guatemala, Guatemalan Schools, John Smith, Johnsmith, PEG, PEG Partners

October 16, 2008

Fathers and Sons and Guatemala

US Airways Flight 1831, Charlotte to Miami Da Guate 081016 Touching down in Miami It’s extraordinary to realize that I woke up in Missouri yesterday, in Black Mountain, North Carolina today, and will wake up in Santiago, Atitlan, Guatemala tomorrow, after spending brief moments in Asheville, Charlotte, Miami and Guatemala City. Even for me, that’s […]

Filed Under: Baby!, General Update, Guatemala Tagged With: Dad, Guatemala, PEG, Thumper

June 20, 2008

Guate IV: Escuelita David LaMotte

After a couple of hours’ ride on an unusually empty public bus (known affectionately by the ex-pat community as a “chicken bus”), Alan, Caroline and I caught a boat across the lake to get to Santiago, checked into our hotel and crashed. Wednesday morning we caught a tuc tuc (motorcycle taxi) up to Tzanchaj to […]

Filed Under: Guatemala Tagged With: Escuelita David LaMotte, Guatemala, Guatemalan Schools, Santiago, Tzanchaj

June 19, 2008

Guate III: Flora and Fauna

These don’t merit much explanation, but I thought they might be visually blogworthy…

Filed Under: Guatemala Tagged With: animals, butterfly, flowers, Guatemala, photos

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