Tag Archives: life lived

a list to give a glimpse

I was looking through my notebook today and found this list/poem/reflection that I wrote on June 23, about the day of our first GET UP (Girls Empowerment Team of Umoja Project) seminar at Bar Anding’o Primary School.  I thought I would share, not because it is high-quality writing or profound, but because it gives aContinueContinue reading “a list to give a glimpse”

i have lived and am living

I’ve discovered that I love to read poetry while in Kenya.  Somewhere during my junior year, in AP English, I found the beauty which poetry conveys (although I didn’t dare admit that at the time).  During the horrendous ice storm of 2011, when I had recently returned from my semester in Kenya and school wasContinueContinue reading “i have lived and am living”

reactions

First, let me say that I am sorry the posts are few – internet has been slow and the days have been full, such that it is rare that I am awake and functioning enough to write a blog after 9 pm.  It is not because I have not wanted to write, in fact IContinueContinue reading “reactions”