In less than two weeks I will be returning to Ethiopia to work with a medical missionary project in that nation's capitol . This will be my fourth visit , and with each subsequent return there is a vast reminder of the tremendous suffering and disparity between our two realms . For most , the daily struggle for survival eclipses the notion of hopes and plans , which may be poverty's cruelest symptom .I anticipate joyful reunions and as ever , the loved and unlovely sights and odors , noise and music , smiles and tears of Addis Ababa's urban carnival . It is an invasion of the senses , and I have collected many sights and details in sketchbooks over the years . ( many should be made available in a forthcoming monograph )
The image is a large lino-print based on the life of the biblical prophet Jeremiah
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