Food – Deborah Frieze

Restoring the flow of abundance at Kufunda Village

January 17, 2013/in Community, Food, Friendship, Gift Culture, Learning, Localism, Money, Pioneering Leaders, Uncategorized, Walk Out Walk On /by deborah

Last week, I spent a few days at Kufunda Learning Village in Zimbabwe. Here are just a few of the many activities that were going on:

In the herb lab, Patricia and Enock are blending tincture of Artemisia with lemon juice and raw honey to help a neighbor who is suffering from chronic asthma. They will provide a month’s supply of this remedy for free. Patricia dreams of opening an herbal clinic in town where she would work four days a week so she could spend the fifth at the Kufunda clinic and keep it free.

Meditation on the merits of doing nothing

January 7, 2013/1 Comment/in Food, Friendship, Learning, Play, Uncategorized, Walk Out Walk On /by deborah

It is my tenth day in Mozambique, and the wind is howling through our thatched home. Rain poured in sideways through the night, dampening our beds and pooling on the concrete floor. Fifty feet away, three teenage boys are bailing out their fishing dhow, hoping to spare it from the sunken fate of its neighbor—though both boats will be dry enough in a few hours when the tide goes out.