Speak Truth To Power by Ariel Dorfman
I don’t want to pretend I was a hero
In the beginning I had neither pen nor paper to work with
But you don’t live your life in fear
and give people power over you
who can create fear
It would be better to die early
Anything else would have tasted like ashes
That’s what you [...]
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 [...]
A dust cloud settles over the landscape near Molo in Kenya.
A railway crossing point west of Eldoret Town near Maili Tisa.
Two men hold a conversation underneath a tree in the morning in Lugari District.
A dried up tree along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway near Rongai in Kenya.
A man walks the beach at sunrise in Mombasa, Kenya
Ted Turner – “Sports is like a war without the killing.”
The Africa Cup of Nations, also referred to as the African Nations Cup (ANC) is the main international association football competition in Africa. It is sanctioned by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and was first held in 1957. Since 1968, it has been held [...]
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 [...]
To The Indians Who Died in Africa by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
A man’s destination is his own village,
His own fire, and his wife’s cooking;
To sit in front of his own door at sunset
And see his grandson, and his neighbour’s grandson
Playing in the dust together.
Scarred but secure, he has many memories
Which return at the [...]
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