Blog — LoveAliveInternational

Imagine living in a remote village where there is no running water, no electricity and the buildings/structures around you are made from mud.  It’s hot and sticky, no electricity means no air conditioning, if you even know what that is.  If there is no electricity... there is likely no gas, so you have no stove.  You’re cooking outside with those pesky bugs, trying to create something small for your family to eat.  Vegetables, rice??  Did you grow the vegetables in that pot… the only pot you own?  How did you buy the rice?  Where do you get the money from?...

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Fade back to the 70’s or so… What do you see?… Lots of olive green ovens and and rust colored carpet… maybe we went too far back.  Come forward a little, oh it’s me.  My mom just made me a beautiful blue and white striped skirt.  I love it so much, I want a shirt to go with it, but mom thinks there is not enough material left to make a shirt. I’m a child, how much material can it take… and really how hard can it be?   It takes just a few straight lines of sewing.  While she is not looking, I...