I feel … renewed.

Maybe someone could teach the orphan kids how to build violins and other simple musical instruments (it’s really not that hard to do! — kids do it in mountain villages in Venezuela now all the time … they just need some pretty simple woodworking tools, mainly handsaws and scrapers, and of course to be shown how to make glues and oils for treatment) … they could then organize themselves a small quartet, using instruments that they made themselves, and travel to evangelize for the orphanage, and the Peruvian peoples. And, they could evangelize for GSG’s green smoothies and classical music (both healthy) as well!

(to localize the smoothie, I would add a sweet miso-like salt-based probiotic to their mountain smoothie, for a more traditional Peruvian flavor … maybe using chick peas as the base, with kale or mustard greens, and sea veggies, lots of garlic and cayenne, and maybe some raw turmeric (or ginger) root, and of course sea salt — ferment for 3 to 9 months, and add 1 to 2 tbsp per smoothie … then they could sell their mountain smoothie miso world wide and become a famous companion to GSG’s wonderful life’s work.)

It would be a mistake for any reader to think of the Peruvian children as uneducated primitives, as that would be only a matter of temporary outward appearances. Inwardly, they are a naturally musical and extremely quick and intelligent and happy people. They have a natural understanding that the Universe is a self-reflexive phenomenon — that it will give back in the thousand fold whatever you put into it. Thus their surprisingly natural understanding of sharing the grapes in a earlier post.

And who knew that the University of Peru, was organized and built c.1550 (almost 100 yrs before our Harvard!), by ancestors of these orphans, as the central focus of the original design for the great city of Lima. One of its professors, a Prof. Pedro Paulet, prepared detailed aerodynamic designs with his students, circa 1910, for a spaceship. Peruvian professors and students were preparing working planning for exploration of space c.1910 … they are natural dreamers and explorers … and morally they are way ahead of modern US universities! Not only that, but our modern space shuttle is almost an exact copy of the original aerodynamic design (whether intentional or not) of Prof. Paulet.

Maybe some of the orphans from this village will become astronatus or famous musicians or medical doctors as well …

a wonderful travel blog Robyn. Bravo! to your live’s work. I’m delighted to see you building your army of followers. God speed!