Sunday, December 28, 2008

From business school to batik


One of the miracles of the Internet is being able to keep up with all of those people I surely would have lost touch with in the pre-digital days.

As someone who loves life stories -- or life's stories -- I was tickled that electronic communication brought me back in touch with Julie, one of my former business school students, and also one of my daughters' past babysitters.

I always thought Julie's personality might take her down a different life path from the typical business route, and I was right: she is now living in Senegal and recently married batik clothing designer Omer Silé Dao Diatta. She is helping out with his business and also occasionally modeling his creations, as you can see above!

Check out Omer's website and his beautiful work here.

2 comments:

tut-tut said...

Wow. Inspirational. And I'm sure your daughters were made richer by having her as a babysitter.

Randal Graves said...

Very cool. See, the internets isn't merely for politics and porn. ;-)