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Arriving in India
Carolyn
Belle Osborn arrived in Bombay on an ocean liner after three months
of travel from Kokomo, Indiana. As she walked the streets and
alleys of the Indian city, I imagine that she must have had
thoughts like these:
"Oh
God, how am I going to manage to live in this sprawling,
disheveled,...
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Darjeeling
A
petrifying railroad journey into the Himalayas was the beginning of
my first serious educational studies…
It
began with an overnight train ride on the Eastern Indian Railroad
from Calcutta to Siliguri. I slept in an upper bunk bed, with a
powerful fan on all night. Although my mother was in...
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Boarding School
My
mother suddenly notified me that, I was to be shipped away again to
a boarding school, for my fifth grade, again to the mountains – but
this time to Southern India.
Without
warning, one beautiful morning after returning home from a
delightful tennis lesson and swim at the Secunderabad Club,...
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Albion College
Within
a week we had booked train tickets to Michigan instead of
Iowa.
My
feelings were abruptly shifted from anticipation to apprehension. I
conjectured what Michigan would be like as contrasted with Iowa.
What kind of a town would name itself “Kalamazoo”?
The
cleanliness and convenience of...
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Despair
The
eight years of my life after leaving Dansville were filled with
personal, vocational and family restlessness.
I had
left the three years of the serene rural environment with the heavy
work responsibilities of pastoral ministry at the two rural
Methodist Churches. But the next few years of my...
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Illness Strikes
The
three final, stressful years of Joanne’s earthly life often seemed
to me like walking along the razor’s edge of a narrow Himalayan
path with precipitous drop-offs on either side.
It felt
wise to look only straight ahead, taking one step at a time, and
not be diverted by the dreadful...
