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: What a beautiful website! Very nice.
: I stumbled upon your profile on FB because I once loved a woman named Kari... and what I found there were some of the most [...]
: i demand an update!
: Absolutely love your site! You are an extremely talented and lucky girl...the Lord has truely blessed you.
: I am so impressed I had to save it so I continously go back and read things I may have skimmed
September 15th, 2008 on 4:23 pm
I adore your site, photos and thoughts.
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September 21st, 2008 on 8:42 pm
ask pascal if he remembers that sand castle we built – it was a very detailed well with stones and “mortar” and everything. i am so nostalgic.
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November 3rd, 2008 on 5:23 pm
Thank you for bringing this to us. I want my worldview rattled and radically changed!
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November 12th, 2008 on 12:14 pm
your site is amazing :) hope u will still be blogging when we are grandmas :)
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November 16th, 2008 on 1:54 am
do you “carry” 22 books in theology?
:)
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November 22nd, 2008 on 3:27 am
We (especially the ones with smooshy faces)miss you here in TX. Thanks for showing us glimpses of this other world… we cannot travel so far but you take us there every time you post a new photo and thought. Love you!
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November 23rd, 2008 on 6:01 pm
Angie and smoosh faces, I love and miss you enormous amounts.
Ken- maybe they carry me?
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January 7th, 2009 on 7:26 pm
Your photos are just amazing. And your comments like poetry! Love it. I am in a neighboring country. ;-) I can relate to what you show and write. Looking forward to more posts.
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January 7th, 2009 on 9:16 pm
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I think it is funny that our blog names are somewhat related: pelegrine by nature – reluctant nomad. Just at opposite ends of the spectrum. ;-)
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January 8th, 2009 on 10:20 am
I am a new reader but i can feel that i am loving more and more your blog.
Ba bénéne yone!
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January 10th, 2009 on 3:02 am
lovely pictures! Keep it up!
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January 15th, 2009 on 4:04 pm
Kari, ……. I am speechless, spellbound, your heart is showing and it is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in decades ……. ever. Your talent is overshadowed by the love in the content. Ever since I met you I knew there was something very special about you… now I have a glimpse of just what that is. I long to hug you and have some of that rub off on me – in me.
“we do not have a soul, we are a soul we have a body”
beautiful just like you.
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February 5th, 2009 on 10:06 pm
By far, By miles, the best blog I have seen so far. Keep blessing us!
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April 14th, 2009 on 9:47 pm
Kari, I live in a beautiful part of Canada which is very different from Segenal but also has it’s own wonders. I don’t think I have ever heard anyone else express the emotion that comes out through your writing. Very unique. Keep it up!
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April 18th, 2009 on 2:45 am
its amazing how you minimize the burden of daily life in Senegal,between electricity shortage and the countless talibes bothering you each step of the way,between the constant fighting when trying to buy a simple thing and not getting cheated off and the constant No sign you have to show the cabbies when you are walking down the street…..trying to tell everyone yes,I am Toubab but I am not that rich.your pictures show serenity,and they are very beautiful,but I think they are far from reality,everything here is chaotic and stressful,different stress than the one in the US.
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Susanne Reply:
April 28th, 2009 at 7:48 am
I love the site, and visit fequently…
Comment on Karims statement:
I can see where you’re coming from. It sounds like a culture clash. I used to be the same. I visit in-law-family in Dakar, Senegal every year. The first time I visited I had the exact same reaction. Stress over having to haggle over everything in the market, stress because the taxi didn’t come as planned or go as fast as promised, stress over things consuming my time, stress, stress, stress. Because time is valuable (time is money to us Europeans/Americans) right? I have noticed Senegalese people have another attitude to time (annoying when your senegalese dinner guests arrive two hours “late”, but relaxing at the same time, it makes you relax about the whole event). On my visits to Senegal I study life and I’m always amazed at how these people manage to keep calm in any situation. With a “c’est la vie”-attitude. I decided I wanted to adopt this attitude. This has been life changing for me in my daily life at home. I am now more tolerant, manage stress better because I now the world don’t crash if I’m 2 minutes late. C’est la vie…
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April 30th, 2009 on 5:39 pm
thanks for the comments, everyone. susanne, good point! ‘c’est la vie, c’est l’afrique’ is my motto:)
karim, yes what you say is true, those stresses are a reality here, but so are the things this diary for the most part chooses to focus on, those moments of serenity, the peace that can be found amid the chaos. i think it is true that every city in the world has both beauty and ugliness. i choose to reflect the beauty, because i love it here, and because i have hope. also, this blog is an account of and reflections on a personal quest, i don’t represent senegal’s tourism industry in any way:)
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May 8th, 2009 on 6:19 pm
I love you and I haven’t met you yet.
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June 11th, 2009 on 2:32 am
Kari! So glad you posted these. Please keep us updated about the situation in Cobo. We are praying for you and for the village. With love.
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August 8th, 2009 on 2:49 pm
Hello :-)
We have listed your blog on our site……let us know what you think! http://www.infoafricanow.com
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September 1st, 2009 on 1:36 pm
Found your blog via the Road to the Horizon. I love it. Will be coming here more often. Ps. That picture of the tea kettle brought back some fond memories of my childhood in Kenya
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September 8th, 2009 on 1:34 am
Thank you so much for your comment on our blog. Your photos are absolutely wonderful! We have lot’s of blog readers that are, like us, adopting from Ethiopia who would really enjoy your blog so I hope you don’t mind if we share your address with them. I’m certain they would enjoy the photos and your first hand accounts of Africa.
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November 11th, 2009 on 4:58 pm
I don’t know what happened, but I just realize that it is a long time since I stopped by last. Hope you are doing well.
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November 20th, 2009 on 11:12 am
Looking at your amazing photos make me long for a home I had begun to think was only imagination. Thank you for these visual images which are tangible to my soul!
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Kari Reply:
January 4th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
thank you dear friend, i had started to think it was my imagination as well. have you any plans to return?
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March 2nd, 2010 on 8:37 pm
Just stumbled upon your blog, amazing pictures, they tell a great story! I hope you don’t mind if I add a link to you on my blog and I look forward to your future posts!
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March 29th, 2010 on 8:48 pm
Glad to have discovered your great work, keep it up
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May 13th, 2010 on 5:29 am
I am so impressed I had to save it so I continously go back and read things I may have skimmed
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June 7th, 2010 on 5:33 pm
Absolutely love your site! You are an extremely talented and lucky girl…the Lord has truely blessed you.
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June 10th, 2010 on 11:44 am
i demand an update!
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July 7th, 2010 on 6:17 am
I stumbled upon your profile on FB because I once loved a woman named Kari… and what I found there were some of the most beautiful photos I’ve ever seen. You’re truly are lucky to be able to go on your journey. I love photography and your story looks amazing.
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August 17th, 2010 on 9:52 pm
What a beautiful website! Very nice.
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