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Recently, I have been encouraged to "speak up" and "speak out".  I figured what better way to do this than by launching a blog to go with my new website layout?  For those of you who don't know me, I'm Rachael... the younger of the two sisters that co-own Cymbidium.  After a year of doing our accounting (and hating my life) I was pushed by a slightly older and wiser sister to pursue my dreams of being a photographer.  A lot of research, a few trips to the camera store, and an extended stay abroad later... CYMBIDIUM photography was born.  It's been a few years now but the excitement of showing the world how I see things returns every time I pick up the camera and LOOK THROUGH MY LENS. 
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President Obama in Ghana
07.16.09
President Obama recently took a trip to one of my favorite places in the world... Ghana.  While there, he visited one of my least favorite... Elmina Castle, an old trading post known for being the last part of Africa a slave would ever see.  To say this place is eerie doesn't begin to describe it.  Gut wrenching and horrifying are better, but still don't do it justice... as in currently, years after the imprisonment has ended, the coloration and stench cannot be removed from the slave dungeon walls, serving as a constant reminder to all who visit of the torment that occurred there.  Unfortunately, as Obama said in his CNN interview with Anderson Cooper at Elmina Castle, "the capacity for cruelty still exists".  Even in Ghana with an epic reminder of this cruelty erected for the world to see, slavery still exists.  
At this point you're probably thinking, "ok, thanks for the update and history lesson Debbie Downer, but I thought this was the HOPE section... and by the way what's with the random picture of kids? and what do they have to do with anything?"  Well, since you are so antsy... The 7 kids pictured, (left to right) John, Richard, Kofi, Kojo, Mark, Hagar, and Sarah, have emblazoned an all too realistic picture of slavery in my head and ignited a burning passion in my heart.  All of these children were rescued from slavery by God through a woman named Pam Cope (Director of the Touch a Life Foundation), who is currently teaching me how to daily pursue the hope that slavery will end.  Check back often for more on these kids and the daily pursuit.



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