1. View of Pacaya from the top of Agua.

     

  2. View of Pacaya from Volcan de Agua

     

  3. I never thought I’d be this high outside of a plane.

    On top of Volcan de Agua, watching the sunrise from above the clouds.

     

  4. Sunset from our office balcony

     

  5. I was Kevin from the movie UP for Halloween. My best friend Liz painted me up =). Concept by Charlene Ngo

     

  6. Little girl from Tanzania :)

     

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  8. Flower of the Amazon

     

  9.    When you’re training for a half marathon, you’re not just straight up running thirteen miles every day. There are easy runs, long runs, speedwork, and rest. All four of these are woven into your schedule so that your muscles and endurance can be built up properly. Rest is necessary for your muscles to reconstruct and build themselves back up before they are torn down again in your next run. On a training schedule, the day before the marathon, you still only would have ran a max of 10 miles. Yet somehow your body is ready to propel itself through the last 3.

        Rest allows us to recover and reconstruct so that we may be propelled further than we have ever gone before.

        Seasons of rest are not a waste of time. The seasons where we are called to sit and be loved are meant to develop us in ways that pushing it as hard as we can could never do.

        Striving and restlessness reveal discontentment in us, [which is not always a bad thing]. What does it mean to truly live out of a place of rest, [even when it’s not a season of rest]?

        - tiffyface