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	<description>Namaste</description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know Hindi, or Marathi, but I learned a little, then took a bus somewhere they don&#8217;t speak it. I didn&#8217;t realize the bus wouldn&#8217;t go all the way to the station and wonder if the driver knew that before we left Mumbai or decided that later, en route. The man behind me was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers Paradise</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2013/01/writers-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darlene lowered herself over the side of the boat into the surf and I passed down her bags and leapt in beside her. It had been thirty six hours of travel, thru South Korea, a night in the Bangkok airport, catching the first flight south to Krabi and finally this long tail, outboard motor. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ganesh, Our Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Elephant Cloud wakes from a long slumber. When our story left off, we were separated in the remotes of Ethiopia. Me on the side of the road with an empty tank of gas, Darlene in a hospital with no running water. Being separated from your partner in remote parts of the world is one [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Mota</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tire was flat when the car arrived. When I came out to greet him, Mulu was already under the car and surrounded by the neighborhood children, who were better behaved than I&#8217;d ever seen them. There is an adage in Africa that with film and video, it&#8217;s best not to linger too long. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia&#8217;s Daughters: Chapter III</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2011/02/ethiopias-daughters-chapter-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from Chapter Two of Ethiopia&#8217;s Daughters Chapter Three A small unlocked Nokia cell phone with an Ethiopian SIM card floats between the white pockets of Dr. Philippa and myself. The number is scribbled on paper taped in the maternity ward. We are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Market Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is market day and the streets are full of donkey carts and barefoot pilgrims wrapped in their white gabi&#8217;s, driving their wares to the square. We buy potatoes, cabbage, beets, kale, onions, garlic, eggs and a chicken. Darlene named her Doro Wat, which is the national dish of Ethiopia, a spicy chicken stew. Philippa [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia&#8217;s Daughters: Chapter II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from Chapter One of Ethiopia&#8217;s Daughters Chapter Two Without running water, sterility is difficult and conservation is everything, even during surgery. Faded green gowns and drapes, homesewn lap sponges, recycled tubing, everything in the operating room is used again and again. We enter building 24, the operating theater. A clear plastic apron, battered [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopia’s Daughters: Chapter I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter One ‘You want a picture?’ he asked as we drove to the edge of the desolate canyon. ‘How about now? You don’t have camera?’ ‘Later,’ I told him, ‘When we come back, when we return home.’ ‘You sure? You sure you return home?’ he laughed. That was a good question since I was wondering [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hamlin Fistula Hospital</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2011/01/hamlin-fistula-hospital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Catherine Hamlin is eighty seven years old and still performing surgeries. Her work has been included in multiple award winning documentary films, including A Walk to Beautiful and Lighting the Candle. We hadn&#8217;t received confirmation on our request meet, so when an interview was granted, we had to race back to the hotel to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Returning to African soil- Addis Ababa, old friends and roosters</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2011/01/returning-to-african-soil-addis-ababa-old-friends-and-roosters/</link>
		<comments>http://elephantcloud.net/2011/01/returning-to-african-soil-addis-ababa-old-friends-and-roosters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows down, hot air plastering dust over smiles, the traffic is chaos with horns blaring as we pull into the city of Addis Ababa. We have returned to Ethiopia. Danny, our taxi driver, shouts over the mix of local hip-hop and Michael Jackson, inviting us to a bunna bet or coffee ceremony at his sisters [&#8230;]]]></description>
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