Tag Archives: Mary Oliver

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”

this business of “being called”

Last week at a meeting the Head Teacher at Mawego Girls Secondary School and a dear friend, Grace Ataro, told the room that it is as if I am “called to be in Kenya.”  Just before the meeting, Mariah and I had been talking about the language of “being called” and how, though I don’tContinueContinue reading “this business of “being called””