GHANA | Sunday, 8 Apr 2007 | Views [643]
the lake starts off like glass, a calm so perfect you could disappear through the surface into the depths of eternity. maybe that is why the ashanti spirits come to rest here when they've been released from their perfect black bodies, because the lake ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
MALI | Sunday, 4 Mar 2007 | Views [264]
in all the poetry, i neglected to portray a tangible idea of what i'm doing here, really: so, i'm in a burkina faso, in a bustling village known as bobo-dioulasso. sounds like a clown school, but its really a haven for budding artists and a more urban ... Read more >
Tags: Family
MALI | Friday, 23 Feb 2007 | Views [369] | Comments [2]
she is bold: ears strung with gold her fetishes made from the bones of the old and on her head she holds the fabric of souls her slender neck sinking from the weight of full bowls four meals (her hips spin like wheels, i am told) and she heals ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
BURKINA FASO | Friday, 23 Feb 2007 | Views [181] | Comments [2]
earth's limbs are heavy with the weight of almost ripe mangoes, birth dangling over the dusty desolate streets, i find dreams in my sleep. the sweet air of burkina deep in my mind. the morning drinks of syrup milk and an undefined sun: divine adoring ... Read more >
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MALI | Friday, 23 Feb 2007 | Views [231]
last night i slept in a village of trucks, buses constructed from a melange of tired taxi engines and the carcasses of retired train cars. everything is in the dirt, the bitter rinds of unfinished oranges, the bleating desperate goats, the fly covered ... Read more >
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SENEGAL | Monday, 29 Jan 2007 | Views [296] | Comments [1]
there is this idea here, in the wolof language, called taranga-the word for senegalese hospitality. they will smile so huge, so huge with sparkling teeth!! they will hold your hand and call you sister, and insist so joyfully that you come to their house ... Read more >
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SENEGAL | Thursday, 18 Jan 2007 | Views [304]
day 6: after three flat tires and a lot of hassle, i make it across the border to senegal. i am in dakar now, and it is visciously mocking me- i feel like an unwanted weed in the original garden of mother earth, my status sweetly and discretely revealed ... Read more >
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MAURITANIA | Wednesday, 17 Jan 2007 | Views [673] | Comments [3]
the road to nowhere is paved with chance- there is only one way to go, from morocco through mauritania. one spectacular road that is actually paved. the road turns to sand, the sand into stories, and the stories into figs for you to taste through these ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
MAURITANIA | Tuesday, 16 Jan 2007 | Views [410]
the road to nowhere is paved with chance- there is only one way to go, from morocco through mauritania. one spectacular road that is actually paved. the road turns to sand, the sand into stories, and the stories into figs for you to taste through these ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
MOROCCO | Friday, 29 Dec 2006 | Views [390] | Comments [3]
music flows through the streets of this city like the lifeblood of god penetrating humanity. it is what the people here live for, singing in the streets with a passion that is impossible to misinterpret. it is a perpetual festival, a land where the sound ... Read more >
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