Comments on: Our New Logo http://www.watopot.org/our-new-logo/ The things we have gone through together Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:28:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: anna redsand http://www.watopot.org/our-new-logo/comment-page-1/#comment-5336 anna redsand Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:05:04 +0000 http://www.watopot.org/?p=619#comment-5336 Like Gail, I'm deeply moved, over and over again, by how organically things happen at Wat Opot. It's a lesson for how it could be everywhere, when we can be open. Let it be. With love. Like Gail, I’m deeply moved, over and over again, by how organically things happen at Wat Opot. It’s a lesson for how it could be everywhere, when we can be open. Let it be. With love.

]]> By: Anthony http://www.watopot.org/our-new-logo/comment-page-1/#comment-5321 Anthony Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:25:42 +0000 http://www.watopot.org/?p=619#comment-5321 Great logo and flag! Great logo and flag!

]]> By: gail gutradt http://www.watopot.org/our-new-logo/comment-page-1/#comment-5320 gail gutradt Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:24:05 +0000 http://www.watopot.org/?p=619#comment-5320 I was happy to see the new flag and to see the quote from the Kyoto Journal article on the back of the tee shirt. It's funny how this happened. The words are Wayne's, something he said to me one evening when i was asking him a question for the book i am writing abut Wat Opot. I wrote them in my journal and later in the article because they seemed to capture something important about the community. When i was looking for a title for the article that phrase seemed perfect. Seeing this, i am struck by how i was merely the scribe, recording some words that Wayne said and might have forgotten, then serving them back to him so he, in turn, could use his OWN words in this context. I love how this works! Sometimes i see Wat Opot as a moment in time, a response to a changing need. Before ARV medicines it was a clinic and crematorium and a gentle place for AIDS patients to die. Then it was a home for people who might survive and for orphaned children, with and without HIV. Now it has grown into a community and a family, with three kids in college and twenty in high school. I come back now and then and love to watch the changes. Here is what Wayne said: “Don’t write about me. It’s their parents that died. I just happened to be there with them. That’s what created Wat Opot. That’s what made us a family...the things that we’ve gone through together.” I was happy to see the new flag and to see the quote from the Kyoto Journal article on the back of the tee shirt. It’s funny how this happened. The words are Wayne’s, something he said to me one evening when i was asking him a question for the book i am writing abut Wat Opot. I wrote them in my journal and later in the article because they seemed to capture something important about the community. When i was looking for a title for the article that phrase seemed perfect. Seeing this, i am struck by how i was merely the scribe, recording some words that Wayne said and might have forgotten, then serving them back to him so he, in turn, could use his OWN words in this context. I love how this works!

Sometimes i see Wat Opot as a moment in time, a response to a changing need. Before ARV medicines it was a clinic and crematorium and a gentle place for AIDS patients to die. Then it was a home for people who might survive and for orphaned children, with and without HIV. Now it has grown into a community and a family, with three kids in college and twenty in high school. I come back now and then and love to watch the changes.

Here is what Wayne said:

“Don’t write about me. It’s their parents that died. I just happened to be there with them. That’s what created Wat Opot. That’s what made us a family…the things that we’ve gone through together.”

]]> By: agathe http://www.watopot.org/our-new-logo/comment-page-1/#comment-5239 agathe Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:41:34 +0000 http://www.watopot.org/?p=619#comment-5239 Oh thank you Wayne ! I m really happy to see picture of the 3 flags together... It s really nice. I send you kiss from Argentina for you and all the children. Hasta luego Oh thank you Wayne ! I m really happy to see picture of the 3 flags together… It s really nice. I send you kiss from Argentina for you and all the children. Hasta luego

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