[Faith-talk] International Women's Day Recognition

[Paul]

Debbie, I can tell you, and that is because of the domination of other 
languages such as English, French, Spanish and above all Mandarin Chinese. 
Also, Esperanto is a philosophy in addition to a language.  If you find 
someone with interests that you two have in common, you will want to 
correspond with him/her and, in this day and age, that would mean emails, 
Skype and Twitter.  The philosophy is that, when you begin to correspond 
using this language, even though your two governments are at loggerheads 
over various issues, that any animosity between you two will lessen until 
you don't hate each other merely because the two governments can't get 
along.  For over 25 years, for instance, I've been corresponding, initially 
in Braille, and now via email, with a gentleman from Cuba, Juaquin Borges 
Triana.  Even though blindness is one thing we have in common, Joaquin is 
also a Christian with all that entails.  He's learned some things about our 
country, and I've learned some things about Cuba, things that the U.S. 
government likely wouldn't want me to know.  This resulted in my spending 
some time with him when I attended the Esperanto Congress known as the UK 
(Universala Kongreso) in Havana in 1989.  Even though his living conditions 
are woefully poor by our standards, Mr. Triana's family was very hospitable, 
something lacking so much in our country today.  I could go on and on, but 
I'll leave it at that.  Paul
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> Thanks, Paul for both pieces of information.  I will try and find the 
> book.  Wonder why Esperanto didn't catch on?    Blessings,    Debby
>
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