Photo Friday…I mean Monday

I wanted to post this on Friday in honor of Oyster girl’s long abandoned FOTO FRIDAY but I got too busy and before I knew it …it was Monday.  This is a photo that my husband took on his trip home to Uganda in January.  It is his sisters and cousins at a resort on Lake Victoria. I like how the focus is on the straws and the lades are in the background sipping their sodas.

GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING

DO NOT SWALLOW YOUR

CHEWING-GUM

See what happens ?

This was an email that I received from a coworker last week.

I laugh and forward it on to a few friends including my husband…

This is the response I get from him

“I used to swallow my gum when i was little all the time, this never happened”

I was crying I was laughing so hard!

Maybe he should have swallowed bigger pieces!

The loss of a mum

“The loss of a mum” This was the subject line of an email that my husband, James, sent to friends a few days ago.  He was tenderly expressing to them the sadness of loosing his mother, Jane Aguro.  It was just about three months ago that she and his father, Peter Omedo, were here in Atlanta for our wedding.

James’ mother was sick when she was here but not many people knew it.  Her stomach had been bothering her and doctors in Uganda had diagnosed different things…ulcers…tumors…we still don’t know what it was…James even took her to the hospital here in Atlanta but they looked at the records she had brought with her from Uganda and told her it was gall stones.  She actually felt better while in the US… we think it was the happiness of seeing her son after not seeing him for 8 years.  On the plane ride home she became very ill and could not bear the pain.  After returning to Uganda she was under the care of three doctors and about a month ago she had surgery to remove part of her stomach.  After spending two weeks in the hospital she was sent home to recover.  We spoke to her monday evening she said she was very week and her stomach was hurting her.  We thought she was getting better.

On Friday evening September 21 Jane Aguro left behind her husband, 7 children and one grandchild.  She is now in God’s hands.  Rest in peace mum, rest in peace.

I would like to add a few photos of James’ mum at our wedding.  She was so truely happy.  I will always remember her this way as the three weeks they spent with us in the United States is the only time I will have ever really known her.  We are so thankful that James was able to see both of his parents before his mother left this world.  We thank God for giving him that last time to be with his mother.

Design for the other 90%

Lately I have been in an architecture rut.  I am found myself becomming dis-engaged with projects and it is time to step back and look at the bigger picture. While reading an email from the Young Architects Forum (YAF)  I came a cross a link to this blog on the Architectural Record site.  A very interesting review of the Design for the other 90% exhibit, that is soon to close, at the National Design Museum in New York.

Another organization this blog also highlighted is Designers without Borders…. a very interesting organization that actually highlights working in Uganda.