if it be the will “Just pulled into Tamba. Don’t worry about me okay?” I type in and send the text message to Mbouille on the cell phone that he insisted I buy. By…
Browsing Category spirituality & religion
mysteriously sustained
Every vision, every interaction, every conversation, every person – in Senegal – is a composition. Like a shaken bottle of champagne, I feel myself about to explode in explanation of what I would easily label,…
a blessing recipe
Popes, priests and prophets have their methods. Merchants, and those who buy from them, name it in terms of this or that currency. But the value and blessing upon any object, for me, cannot be…
la petite fille
I try to hunch into the longer shadows cast by the spotlight. Then I try turning around and searching for some speaker or spectacle that might give me more shade. I quickly realize that all…
small & big minding
Small mindedness; at once my curse and blessing. Unable to see the big picture, how can I be overwhelmed by, or fear, it? I’m not sure that ignorance is bliss, but I am certain that…
audio & visual
In toning up for the new legs of my upcoming adventures, as well as being on lesson 74 of Pimsleur’s French *amazing language learning audio* series… I thought I’d just share, also, what I’ve been…
tackle & tangle
“No more satisfying work than work with no purpose.” – Rumi To build a sandcastle right in the face of an oncoming tide. To climb a tree that I must eventually come down. To write…
sacred ego stomping
The Sacred Lake Namtso (For more stories from Tibet, visit the archives for April, 2005. For more pictures from Tibet, visit the Tibet Photogallery.) I’m in the mood for a story. And this one is…
sword of words
*ouch. change can hurt* A notice on the door tugs on a corner of my subconscious, but my ambition (as ambitions do) to complete the mission with which I set forth speaks over the whispering…