Vanakkam! Welcome! This blogging thing is new to me, but it seems like a good way to journal and stay connected to friends back home as I embark on a new adventure this summer that will take me through India, back to Sri Lanka, and on my first trip to Africa.
If you're wondering about the title of the blog, Nesam, this is a Tamil word for love that has the connotation of affection or compassion (at least that's how it was explained to me). I first heard the word in the name of a project that one of my heroes and mentors in Sri Lanka, Reverend T.S. Joshua, started called the Nesam Infant Programme. This project was led by the young women of Jennifer Girls Home, who would save rice and corn a handful at a time, out of their own meal supplies, and then prepare the collected handfuls of food and deliver it t
o hungry families in surrounding villages. These young women came to be my dear friends and sisters during the 2 years I lived across the lane from them, and my heart is filled with nesam when I think of the special relationship I was able to build with these girls so different from me. Nesam is able to break down the barriers that divide us, and I hope that on my travels this summer I am able to form new, meaningful relationships that I will carry back home to Nashville.
If you're wondering about the title of the blog, Nesam, this is a Tamil word for love that has the connotation of affection or compassion (at least that's how it was explained to me). I first heard the word in the name of a project that one of my heroes and mentors in Sri Lanka, Reverend T.S. Joshua, started called the Nesam Infant Programme. This project was led by the young women of Jennifer Girls Home, who would save rice and corn a handful at a time, out of their own meal supplies, and then prepare the collected handfuls of food and deliver it t
o hungry families in surrounding villages. These young women came to be my dear friends and sisters during the 2 years I lived across the lane from them, and my heart is filled with nesam when I think of the special relationship I was able to build with these girls so different from me. Nesam is able to break down the barriers that divide us, and I hope that on my travels this summer I am able to form new, meaningful relationships that I will carry back home to Nashville.
1 comment:
coolness...and you better be updating. when do you leave?
-slothy
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