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Show The Garfield County Insider March 11, 2010 EITerylCounis hive the Golden 'Rule .gfy Cy44,44,, 1-12t.FliA.4e14 Okay, so I'm at this orphanage, Crèche Enfant Jesus, in Haiti, high in the mountains, about 6,500 feet. Its sister orphanage is located in Lamardelle down in the valley. The mountain orphanage houses mostly HIV babies and children and can be reached by a 15 minute helicopter ride from its sister orphanage, or by a 2-hour car ride which actually goes into Port-au-Prince and then to Lamardelle or vice-versa. I heard that of the 400 children adopted in Haiti each year, 139 are adopted from Crèche Enfant Jesus. The Crèche, as it's called for short, is undoubtedly one of the premier orphanages here. Fortunately, it only sustained a little earthquake damage, but was initially in dire need of formula for the babies and food for the children. I'm staying in the orphanage's guest house. It has two bedrooms and a shared bathroom. It's for perspective parents to stay while in the process of adopting a child. And, in my case, I am accompanying Tonya Mae Wilson, of St. George, who is in the other room, with her five month old Haitian son, Geraldo, now named Tyler, who she may not be able to bring home for nine more months. We've come here compliments of entrepreneur and Internet mogul, Jeremy Johnson, of St. George, who literally gives the shirt off his back to those in need especially Haitians. This place is gorgeous. It's like a virgin resort. The view from my balcony is amazing. Continuous green mountains speckled with homes --many of them tin roof ones-- and trees with fog and cloud coverage seeping in between. We actually need blankets at night as it gets cool, sometimes even cold, and in the morning, too. And last night it rained pretty hard. Electricity comes on for roughly two hours around 6:30 PM. So if you need to charge something you need to do it then. I've met so many amazing people in Haiti, but two that stand out in particular are a woman named Rose and a man named Vella. They both work for the orphanage directors, Lucien and Gina Duncan. Rose is the Duncan's cook and housekeeper --and even lives in their home-- and Vella is their handyman and landscaper. At the Duncan's home, Rose makes us five star lunches and dinners. One in particular was duck, rice, bean sauce and a cranberry like salad. Rose of- GREAT USED CARS Now Available! ten says, "donko" which, I was told, in Haitian Creole, means okay. That's the word, other than the French words "merci" (thank you) or "bonjour" (hello) she spoke to us. But, it didn't matter. We could feel Rose's Christ like love through her spirit, smile, presence, manners, actions such as hugs and holding our hands, and through the tone of her voice. She's one of those people that literally lights up a room. When I saw Rose's feet, I noticed that they were quite weathered, dry and chapped, and that the leather thong sandals she was wearing, were also worn and one of them was even broken. I wondered how it stayed on. It would be like wearing a flip flop that's broken yet she walks up and down hilly and rocky mountainous roads. I asked the director to ask Rose what size her feet are. "Nine," he said. "Ask her if she'd be okay if I sent her some new shoes." She shook her head yes with a large smile taking my hands saying, "Merci, merci, merci." After our dinners, Vella would walk us down a steep and rocky mountainous road, through this village's version of suburbia, to the locked gate of the orphanage where he would bang on the door for the orphan- age supervisor to let us in. Each orphanage has a tall brick wall surrounding it and a locked gate. The valley orphanage even has a guard at its gate. Like rose, Vella, epitomizes Christ like love. His smile is infectious. His presence is loving and his protection is surrounding. We felt safe with Vella be- ing our guide and "body guard" walking from the Duncan's home in the dusk to the orphanage down below the mountainous road. We would pass villagers, some hanging out like Americans might on a street corner, others carrying bushes of crops like onions on their heads, yet others starring and saying, "Hey you!" an all too often common phrase kids and teens in Haiti say which indicates they either want money, food, or candy. Vella's words of choice were "oui, oui" (pronounced "we, we") which means, "yes, yes," in French. Yet, like Rose, we were still able to understand each other. Rose and Villa reminded me that things like popularity, riches, beauty, or even education and talent, don't make a person, if you don't have qualities such as faith, hope and charity. These two beautiful souls would embrace anyone regardless of someone's circumstances or what someone looked like or what they had. And even though neither one of them were beautiful nor popular or wealthy according to "worldly standards" they were all of those things to me. It's been said beauty's in the eye of the beholder." I'd like to add that we learn truly what beauty's all about from people like Rose and Vella, who, although, they're poor and have nothing, are two of the happiest and kindest people I've ever met. Their authenticity, genuineness, purity, and Christ like love, make them beautiful, popular and rich. Let us learn from these two angelic souls who, despite a recent earthquake and its aftershocks, not to mention, limited education and worldly possessions, can still live the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." How about you. Do you practice the Golden Rule regardless of someone's circumstances, beauty, wealth, popularity or education? © 2010 Every1 Counts, LLC. All rights reserved. Cynthia Kimball Humphreys is a professional speaker and trainer through her company Everyl Counts, LLC (www. every 1 counts .net). She writes a column for weeklies in southern Utah and is a southern Utah correspondent for the Deseret News. Her column, "GR8NESS," appears on deseretnews. com monthly. She can be reached at kimball@everyl counts. net. 389 N. Main Panguitch Utah 435-676-8300 Chemist Memory A couple of hours into a visit with my mother, she noticed I hadn't once lit up a cigarette. "Are you trying to kick the habit?" she asked. "No," I replied. "I have a cold, and I don't smoke when I'm not feeling well." "You know," she observed, "you'd probably live longer if you were sick more often." At the Bagel Shop On the Sidelines A wife was sitting on the living-room couch watching her favorite show on the Food Network when her husband walked in. "Why do you watch those food shows?" he asked. "You don't even cook." Glaring back at him, she asked, "Then why do you watch football?" 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