Chris and Kelly with a giant Galapagos Tortoise:
Tag: nature
Okay, we're back in Quito for the night, let's try this blog post again.
On Thursday morning we met up with Guillermo Valencia a local driver/guide recommended by our hotel. He did a great job of narrating the landscape of Quito - physical, political and otherwise - as he took us out toward Mindo. We stopped along the way to stand on the equator (Chris tried to balance an egg on a nail and failed, Kelly successfully verified that water swirls in different directions on different sides of the line, etc.), and to take in some stunning views of craters and volcanoes amid the lush jungles.
Today I was honored to have two different speaking/interviewing events at Earlham College, both about my involvement in community building in Richmond. In preparing, I returned to an interview that Vine Deloria, Jr. did with The Sun a while back, and was reminded how useful and meaningful his words have been to me in the last decade.
I thought I'd share the section of the interview that affected me the most:
Q: How does being in one place for a long time teach you who you are?
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