It's hard to believe that it has not even been three weeks since I arrived. It feels like at least six - but that's what happens when every moment is packed with new experiences. Normal life doesn't usually have so much "newness" to it, so a normal three weeks feels a little more "to scale".... Continue Reading →
Throw a ball into the air and watch carefully. There is a moment at the top of its arc when it is no longer going up but it is not yet going down. It appears to be - ever so briefly - suspended in midair. Jump hard on a big trampoline and you can feel it... Continue Reading →
One Sunday evening sometime in February, a couple of friends I had recently met here in London invited me to dinner with a larger group. I sat next to to two people I did not know and we began the standard opening conversation. Hi, my name is ... who are you? Where are you from? What do you... Continue Reading →
From my desk I see A plastic piece of sky is Tangled in the tree. Blue bag on a branch: Bright emblem of convenience And eternal chaff.
Once upon a time, in disconnected moments and mixed up places, fragments of a story murmured through the thoughts and questions and dreams of a jumbled world. It was a story of somewhere else in some other time and some other way of being - an origin story, alive in the present, which all seemed... Continue Reading →
Where there is thankfulness, there is no room for anger or bitterness or confusion. It is the surest remedy against disappointment or disillusion; it calms the heart in the midst of pain; it clears mind fogged in by self-pity. Thankfulness forces us to look beyond what is wrong and discover what is right. There are... Continue Reading →
I have always loved the comic Asterix and Obelix. Two independent, funny-looking characters defying entire armies with a grin and then stopping to smell the flowers on their way home - what's not to love? One of my favorite strips is from The Twelve Tasks of Hercules. "The place that sends you mad" is the epicenter of... Continue Reading →
... spend 12 hours stuck in traffic or 2 days stuck in an airport? Wednesday, September 3rd (My last night in Nairobi) The road from Westlands to the center of Nairobi is not a long road. On a clear Sunday morning it might take eight to ten minutes to drive between the two. Any... Continue Reading →
After wrapping up my time in Kenya, and while visiting family in the US, different pieces of my world collided in such a way so as to precipitate an unexpected trip to the Congo. Like the butterfly wings that start a monsoon: a chain reaction of tiny events happened at just the right time and... Continue Reading →
The apartment was empty, all the boxes safely stacked in storage, the odds-and-ends temporarily stashed in Jeannine's guest room, and the travel bags packed. Summer had come! The first six weeks (half of June and all of July) flew by in a refreshing whirl of family and friends. I hopped across the US from couch... Continue Reading →
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