If you do, the first bit of information is now online. Mama Liberty published my essay titled Fanning the Flames of Freedom Abroad at The Price of Liberty today. As it’s a fairly detached and focused accounting, I will be filling it out with more personal observations served up here.
If I survive the tomatoes, that is. Every time I go outside, I seem to see more ripe ones beckon- taunting me. Today’s canning adventure is vegetable juice cocktail (or hobbit blood, as the snolfs call it) ... and back to it I go!
So, You Want to Hear About My Travels?
Yes to more camps!
Submitted by Sunni on Sun, 2007-08-12 13:32.
Believe me, I am very glad that I went, too. And I second your call for more camps in more countries—seeing what a difference they make, and how rewarding they are, is deeply inspiring. My only “problem” with that is that I’d want to go to them all!
Thanks again to your dear husband for igniting this particular fire.
Excellent!
Submitted by Presto on Sun, 2007-08-12 14:04.
Glad you got to do something as those freedom camps. Sounds like a very rewarding experience. We probably need some of these types of camps here in the US! I look forward to hearing your personal observations on the trip.
Thanks, Presto
Submitted by Sunni on Mon, 2007-08-13 07:53.
I am still far behind on personal correspondence and Salon work, so I don’t know when I’ll be able to start telling stories from my travels ... but I will offer this observation: one gets so much more out of this kind of travel than the stereotypical tourism. Sure, we didn’t get to see a lot of interesting and/or historically significant places, but we got to interact with lots of people—people who wanted to help us understand their culture, and who were willing to talk about its good and not-so-good elements. I can’t pretend that I have a deep understanding of either place based on my limited slices of experience, but I saw enough to know that a love of liberty is alive in a lot of young people around the world. How can that not be inspiring?
Now, as far as your suggestion for the USSA, which do you think is needed more: the English practice or the freedom philosophy? [Just kidding – well, mostly.]
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Sunni,
I am so glad that you went to the Liberty camps! It's been a long time since I've been able to attend and am longing to be back. I hope so much that what you described will draw attention to the Liberty English Camp or will inspire other freedom-minded individuals to create their own "camps" for teaching. It is well worth mentioning Dr. Barun Mitra who was inspired by Stephen's and Virgis's vision and has been organizing his camp at the foothills on the Himalayas in India.
Monika