Today is Chris’ birthday. (Thanks, Facebook)
It seems fitting that on this day, 66 of us are going out to pour the foundation for School 20, All Hands’ last planned school. This is the biggest foundation pour crew assembled yet. Our goal is to have it done in one day — instead of two or three days, as with past schools. It’ll be a huge task and probably will necessitate an extra-long workday, but we hope it will result in a smoother, stronger structure.
I am reminded of Chris every day, but normally in the context of work – like today – so, happy things.
I’d like to think that Chris would smile at seeing the progress we’ve made on the schools and the improvements, no matter how incremental, taking place in Leogane. I take some comfort in knowing that Chris lives on through the work he did this summer.
A volunteer buddy from this summer and last, Blake, responded to a “Hello from Haiti” post from me on Facebook with a perfect one-word response: “Lucky.”
It’s true. I am very lucky.