SAVE DARFUR

since 2003:

400,000 dead

2,000,000 forced from their homes

3,500,000 dependant on international aid just to survive

I know I don't often get political on my blog, but knowing that genocide is going unchecked as I'm still digesting Thanksgiving lefotvers made me a little ill. Read on:

SaveDarfur.org has a post called "Background" that's worth checking out...

Darfur has been embroiled in a deadly conflict for over three years. At least 400,000 people have been killed; more than 2 million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad; and more than 3.5 million men, women, and children are completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter...

Check out the site and sign the petition to ask Secretary-General Kofi Annan of the U.N. and Prestident George Bush to deploy already approved peacekeeping forces and strengthen international aid to save lives.

Photo Story

I just figured how to upload video to myspace, so I added our latest Photo Story to my myspace page for anyone who wants to check it out. Have fun!

inspiring

This past Sunday Matt ran in his first race. He's been jogging pretty regularly ever since college and lately he's really stepped it up. So when a few weeks ago a friend mentioned that she'd be running in the local 13K Matt decided to join the 6000 other runners as well. Here are some cool shots of him the local paper took during the final km that winds through the old city - he's in images 12-15.

It was a long and hilly route and I am really proud of Matt for running and finishing well. We had such a fun morning cheering him on along with all the other runners. Abigail and Isa loved yelling and screaming to help their Daddy run faster. I was inspired myself to go for a jog later that afternoon. (Since I've only worked out twice since Eden was born, running in the race myself didn't seem like such a good idea - maybe next year!)