When we first came to Quelimane, we purchased a self-inking stamp (called a "carimbo" in Portuguese) to put the church's name in the hymn books so they wouldn't disappear on us (failed effort by the way, but that can be the topic of another post). Here is what the stamp looks like:
Well, before too long, we started dealing a little with the government--renewing visas and performing marriages. We found that our signature on these documents was not accepted by the government. It lacked authenticity and our organization legitimacy--because the documents that we submitted we're not stamped. The church has no official stamp of course, so I simply started using my little hymn book stamp above. Sure enough, we became official, legitimate, and authentic, simply by the application of a stamp that any person on the street could purchase. Go figure. We have learned here to focus on doing what works, and this seems to work fine despite the illogic of it.
We have some grass or lawn in our front yard (or quintal) and back yard. It looks like what in California we called Bermuda grass, thick stuff. It grows and we have no lawn mower here so I wondered just what would be the lawn-care solution. I enclose the following short video by way of demonstration:
It has been a while since i have posted pictures of adorable African children so perhaps I will drop a few in today.
Location:Quelimane, Moçambique
By simple things.....great things are brought to pass, documents and weeds I guess. Lori P.
ReplyDeleteThere's some rhythm in that grass cutting... add some bass guitar, Toby singing and the investigators would come running.
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