Paul - Making Peace in Ethiopia

Written By Robin Wade

Paul - Making Peace in EthiopiaPaul Makepeace - Making Peace in Ethiopia

Have you ever had a friend that you just couldn't ever really figure out what the heck he does for a living?  Well, I've had a few.  All (well almost all) turned out totally legit, usually hearty do-gooders.  We'll, I received an email this morning with these pics of his current business trip to Ethiopia. 

The way I understand it, he will be stationed in Johannesburg for a year or two, once he completes his work in Ethiopia.  And from these pics, there seems to be pleanty of work to do.  Now exactly what work he doesn't there I don't have an inkling.  He works for IFDC, an International non-profit, based right here in our community in North Alabama, and according to their website they:  IFDC is an international nonprofit serving the most impoverished areas of the world with agribusiness and soil fertility solutions to achieve global food security.

I just remembered that another old buddy, that has now moved off to Honduras (well he did a couple of decades ago) ran IFDC, and I never really got what he was doing either.

Generally, somehow he's over there maybe working with their government in some type of supportive/collaborative role???  Wonderful work I'm sure.  Maybe we should send our first "local" intern over to interview the current Pres and see what's up. 

I really enjoyed the pics, hope you do.

And Paul, if you'd like to chime in here to clear the air, you'd be more than welcome!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Friend Paul - Making Peace in Ethiopia

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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