Storing Firewood
A stack of firewood is stored besides a mud hut in a farm compound in rural Gatundu in Kenya.
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Lake Elementaita
A view of the slowly declining Lake Elementaita in the Rift Valley. This is due to the damage of forests such as the Mau which are the source of the waters for the rivers feeding the lake.
All in a Day’s Work
Endgame. By Samuel Beckett
CLOV (fixed gaze, tonelessly):
Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
(Pause.)
Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there’s a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap.
(Pause.)
I can’t be punished any more.
(Pause.)
I’ll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for [...]
Trying to Stay Up
A weathered tree stands out amongst bushes at the Nairobi National Park.
Optimism
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another.
A blind [...]
The Acacia Gate
Adapted from: LITTLE GIDDING
(No. 4 of ‘Four Quartets’)
T.S. Eliot
If you came this way,
Taking the route you would be likely to take
From the place you would be likely to come from,
If you came this way in may time, you would find the hedges
White again, in May, with voluptuary sweetness.
It would be the same at the end [...]
Impalas and Zebras
Impalas and Zebras graze at the Kitale National Park. The park is at the foot of Mount Elgon, one of Kenya’s five water towers that have been greatly affected through climate change, deforestation and intense logging.
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