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The inhabitants of Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana urgently need our support: please consider signing the petition that is currently available on our homepage at www.whitetara.org

Queries and comments are more than welcome !

- Catherine

The Ozymandias of Ghana

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: -Two vast and trunkles legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

(Ozymandias by P.B. Shelley - 1818)

Nigeria Revisited

Mariam and Cathy

APRIL 2006: a second emotional visit to an obstetric fistula rehabilitation center in Dambatta, Nigeria...

I was especially happy to meet Mariam again - one of the ladies we interviewed last year. Many of you have seen and commented on the portrait of her that I kept on my VT homepage for quite a while.

Tower of the Winds (with Acropolis above)

Work took me to ATHENS in MARCH 2006 - hopefully not for the last time. VT members Galatea, Janetanne and Aggeliki were wonderful guides and hosts !

With friends by a stream

JUNE 2005: an amazing second trip to Afghanistan. This is truly a place that has captured my soul...

... both for the spirit of its people and for mystical landscapes like this one...

Karen and Cathy

With my cousin on the waterfront in Seattle. HAPPY TRAVELS to all !!

Intro Updated Aug 28, 2007
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Rischard Dec 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM Report Abuse

Hi Cathy, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2012, and friendly regards
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Toshioohsako Oct 22, 2011 at 12:45 AM Report Abuse

Happy birthday, Cathy. Have a good day. It must be still warm in Rome. Toshio
havanaivan Oct 21, 2011 at 7:18 AM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday! I wish you the best in life.
George_Arba Oct 20, 2011 at 11:35 PM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday ! from a romanian VT friend !
pieter_jan_v Oct 20, 2011 at 10:09 PM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday greetings from the Netherlands. PJ
MalenaN Oct 20, 2011 at 10:07 PM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday Catherine! Have a great day!
unravelau Oct 20, 2011 at 3:07 PM Report Abuse

Hello Catherine, It is our time of year again. I do hope that you have the loveliest birthday.....plenty of love and plenty of cake.
Love,
Carole.
Faiza-Ifrah Oct 14, 2011 at 7:29 PM Report Abuse

i wish you a very happy birthday. i think you have not received my email. i hope everything is fine with you. that is William Wordsworth poem 'daffodils' that you have taken the motto from. it reads and looks great.
lina112 Oct 23, 2010 at 8:05 AM Report Abuse

Belated birthday, hope you had a good one . Lina
zazabar Oct 21, 2010 at 5:29 AM Report Abuse

Happy birthday great Cathy. from Masud, Bangladesh.