Daily Archives: 01/26/2010

(Community Matters) Partners in Health executive director Ophelia Dahl after arriving in Haiti on Friday:

Haiti’s catastrophe will forever divide its history into before earthquake and after.

Dust has not settled. Flying towards pap you could see a thick layer of smog lingering above the city. The air is acrid, stings the eyes and makes you cough.  The airport is its own world. A spread of tents large and small, containers, supplies, boxes, vehicles, bicycles, and people wandering about in and out of uniform.

We bumped into Jens, the UN engineer who had worked with us on the bridge we helped build in Boucan Carre, who was the last person to be pulled out alive from the UN meeting building. He had been under rubble for 6-8 days. Needless to say he looked like a walking skeleton and sounded very jittery. He simply said, “I had a lot of luck”. Continue reading →

(Community Matters) It’d been four years since I’ve seen Thais Austin – she looks great and is as engaged in community as ever.  Obviously, DC agrees with her.  Pleased to hear she and Ted Smith have become running buddies.

Tour of the Kennedy Center with friends late afternoon.  Can’t believe I’ve never seen a performance there.  Radically impressive, if needs-an-update, site, especially in context of DC’s dearth of performance art spaces prior.  Exquisite 60s design and build.  Extraordinary gifts of lights, art, stage curtains, marble and everything else from the world’s countries.

Dinner with Haylie Rudy last night, yeah – and her daddy too – and two dear family friends.  Total treat, get to be with the extended Rudy family on Thursday/Friday.  getting excited about ADL Torch of Liberty Dinner honoring Amy & Kirk – early bird preview: not available for a bit

(photo: President’s box at Eisenhower Theatre)