Noon Day Meal
Friends share a picnic meal at a park in Jinja, Uganda
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Young Merchants
Two boys sell mandazis (fried bread) along the streets of Jinja in Uganda.
Bustling Jinja Market
Shoppers browse, haggle and select their wares at a market in Jinja, Uganda.
The Messenger
Choruses from “The Rock”, 1934.
By T S Eliot
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart, for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem the Arabian: were doubtless men of public spirit and zeal.
Preserve me from the enemy who [...]
Water has its own language
Water by Niyi Osundare
When it talks
The rain listens
The Cloud Claps
The river reels
And Rolls with laughter
The Lake never knows
What to do with its excess of grace
The streamside is a choir
Of waving ferns
Water has its own language:
When swollen into flood
Its fury is brown
(And crimson-deep in parts)
It races through the streets
On legs for ever unseen
Grabs everything in sight
With [...]
Children Playing
Children playing inside a shop in Jinja, Uganda.
Inspecting leaves
A woman inspects the leaves of a tree in Jinja, Uganda.
Lao Tzu (604-517 BC), Hua Hu Ching, Verse 52:
Living by Returning to the Mother
All under heaven have a common beginning.
This beginning is the Mother of the world.
Having known the Mother,
we may proceed to know her children.
Having known her children,
we should go back and hold on [...]
Market by the Lake
A lakeside market at Jinja located on Lake Victoria.
Ruined Boat
A ruined boat sits at the beach in Lake Victoria in Jinja, Uganda.
So limping, my soul, we will together go…”
What are you, my soul, you lean and bloodless thing
Like a withered fig that has survived the winter?
In youth it was so different: then the blood
Sang along the veins and it was easy both to love [...]
Jinja Streets
Reflection from a vehicle of a street in Jinja, Uganda.
Pretty Thing on an Ugly Street
The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn’t you pick it up…?.
Daniel Handler “Adverbsâ€
STREET CHILDREN IN AFRICA
Stroll through a market or past a hotel or at the roadside of any major street in the center [...]
Super Connections
In 1967, Stanley Milgram wrote a seminal paper called “Small World” published in the journal Psychology Today. There he shared the idea of “six degrees of separation” between most people that we have all become familiar with today. What many people don’t know is that he also talked about certain people called “Super Connectors”. He [...]
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