When I consider my life in Senegal overall, it can essentially be divided into fourths: – ¼ part: deep, personal, growing, reflective, change-the-way-you-approach-every-day life moments which from moment to moment big and small can be both entirely challenging and entirely enlivening and of which I write and speak often. – ¾ part: moments where youContinueContinue reading “3/4 joyous uncertainty”
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we cried and we laughed and we took deep breaths
We sat in the closed room, each in our own space that at times coincided with the space of others, and we cried and we laughed and we took deep breaths. We sat on the rock, bracing ourselves individually and as one clump as the waves crashed down upon us, and we cried and weContinueContinue reading “we cried and we laughed and we took deep breaths”
relish in the absurdity
There are times in Kenya when I just have to laugh. Most often, this is at myself. There are some situations that are just so foreign, so culturally different, so confusing and there are some situations in which I am just so clumsy, so stupid, so ridiculous that I just laugh to myself and takeContinueContinue reading “relish in the absurdity”
callie daniels-howell 