<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Début du message réexpédié :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>De : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Cynthia Wilson <<a href="mailto:cwilson1976@gmail.com">cwilson1976@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">17 janvier 2011 01:30:45 HNEC<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>À : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Pierre Whalon <<a href="mailto:bishop@tec-europe.org">bishop@tec-europe.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Objet : </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Quake Crushes Haitian Violinist's Hand, But Not His Spirit</b><br></span></div><br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><p>Dear Bishop,</p><p>I wanted to share the following story on the NPR iPhone App- hope truly springs eternal...:<br><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/01/15/132940504/quake-crushes-haitian-violinists-hand-but-not-his-spirit?sc=17&f=1001"></a><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/01/15/132940504/quake-crushes-haitian-violinists-hand-but-not-his-spirit?sc=17&f=1001">http://www.npr.org/2011/01/15/132940504/quake-crushes-haitian-violinists-hand-but-not-his-spirit?sc=17&f=1001</a></p>Quake Crushes Haitian Violinist's Hand, But Not His Spirit<br>by NPR Staff<br><p> - January 15, 2011</p><p>Last February, violinist Romel Joseph was being treated at a Miami hospital for injuries he suffered during the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The school he founded in Port-au-Prince had literally crushed him in the quake. He was trapped underneath the rubble for 18 hours before being rescued; his pregnant wife did not survive.</p><p>From his hospital bed, Joseph promised: "The only thing I do know is as soon as I am able to walk and I am functional that I will go back to Haiti, and I will start the reconstruction of the Victorian School."</p><p>Sure enough, about a month later, he returned to Haiti and began to rebuild the school. During that time, he also wrote a book and nursed himself back to health, paying special attention to his crushed left hand. That's his fingering hand, the one the Julliard-trained musician uses to press the strings of his violin.</p><p>A year after the earthquake, Joseph, like much of southern Haiti, is rebuilding. He has returned to Haiti several times to oversee the reconstruction of the New Victorian School. In September, a temporary shelter was set up, where 208 students resumed their studies.</p><p>Even with three broken fingers on his left hand, Joseph has regained enough strength to begin playing the violin again. There are signs of hope everywhere.</p><p>"Haiti has a long, long way to go," Joseph says. "However, we have to hope that it's going to get there. We have to hope.”</p><p>Having to remain resilient in the face of tragedy is not unfamiliar to Joseph. He lost his eyesight as a child, and 10 years before the earthquake struck, a fire destroyed The New Victorian School. Though the loss of his wife and physical recovery has been trying, Joseph remains optimistic.</p><p>"Eventually, life has to go on," Joseph tells Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz. "This is a whole new episode of my life. I have to follow the mission I have for the rest of the time I have around."</p><p>Joseph's left hand has recovered to the point where he can play simple pieces, which has made moving on from the tragedy a little easier.</p><p>"I'm really thankful because I'm able to play some things. And it's really wonderful because I never thought I'd be able to again," he says.</p><p>Accompanied by his daughter Victoria on viola, Joseph demonstrates his newly regained ability with Handel's "Passacaglia."</p><p>"[The song] reminds me of remembrance, which is kind of sad," he says. "But at the same time, it has a happy ending, which is what it's going to be all about: a happy ending and happy recommencement." [Copyright 2011 National Public Radio]</p><p>To learn more about the NPR iPhone app, go to <a href="http://iphone.npr.org/recommendnprnews"></a><a href="http://iphone.npr.org/recommendnprnews">http://iphone.npr.org/recommendnprnews</a></p></div><div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Bishop (Mgr) Pierre Whalon<br>Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe<br>23, avenue George V<br>75008 Paris France<br>+33 1 53 23 84 06 (tel)<br>+33 1 49 52 96 85 (fax)<br><a href="mailto:office@tec-europe.org">office@tec-europe.org</a><br><br><br></span>
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