good friends

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Spent a good part of the day with two good friends, Cathy and Marie. This picture was taken this afternoon at Winthrop University where we went to view Cathy's photography she currently has displayed there. Her grouping of photographs is called, The Children of Ixopo: Hope and Survival in a Time of Aids. It is part of a larger exhibit entitled South by South Africa, Crafting Cultural Understanding (comparing the American South with that of South Africa). She is SO TALENTED, these are very powerful and poignant pictures.

I will greatly miss these warm and artistic women, it has been THE highlight of my time here getting to know them (who would have ever thought that myself, a native of Michigan, would find so much in common with women who landed in Charlotte from different countries on the other side of the world, South Africa and Australia - just goes to show you it can, at times, be a very small world, indeed). xoxoxo to you both!!