Photo Adventures with Ed

Shadows of freedom

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For me, freedom is embodied on a bicycle, with the ability to travel anywhere using my own power.

True freedom is far greater than our illusions of openness. Poverty and class differences too often cause us to build both physical and figurative fences to keep other groups of society separated, leaving us prisoners of our own class. What kind of freedom is that?

To help improve our united freedom we recently rode the Tour de Tuli. The Tour helps impoverished children by raising critical funds for an education program called “Children in the Wilderness“. The program exposes the kids to the possibility of a better life. Together we can create freedom by breaking down the walls and barriers we form based upon our perceptions of where we belong and what we can do. If but one person is imprisoned in poverty, locked out by a fence, real or imagined, we are all prisoners on the other side. Tear down these walls by sponsoring a child’s education.

I am starting an exciting new initiative to open barriers to give access to true freedom: we will hike Mt. Kilimanjaro together, and each climber will put at least one child of our porters, guides and cooks in a Middle English school for a year. Learn more about this inspiring new program at “Climb for Child“

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