Trip: west africa
There are [22] stories from my trip: west africa
WORLDWIDE | Thursday, 7 Jun 2007 | Views [745]
i can see my fingerprints still blowing about
on weathered grains of sand
the pressure of my feet continuing to echo
through centuries of solid rock
pressing undiscovered fossils further
into forgetting
i can see my eyes still ... Read more >
Tags: poetry
USA | Monday, 21 May 2007 | Views [1037] | Comments [1]
i saw my little sisters today-my sweet brilliant siblings who are so blessed with the joys of their childhood. they are showing me their twenty seven stuffed puppies who all have their own email adresses and online doghouses, and i am thinking about how ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
USA | Wednesday, 16 May 2007 | Views [1051] | Comments [3]
worlds confused:
i am waiting out here for the fung wah bus:triple culture shock-from new york’s underground to chinatown to east coast traffic-all with african soil still stuck to my feet. i am feeling the unnerving quiet of america. there are no colorfully ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
GHANA | Wednesday, 2 May 2007 | Views [1438] | Comments [2]
well, what could be more amazing than squatting in a momentarily abandoned guesthouse with a dozen african drummers and dancers on the coast of ghana? nothing, i tell you. nothing. i am here with them, and i can hear the ocean through my left ear and ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
GHANA | Saturday, 21 Apr 2007 | Views [1897] | Comments [1]
they sell water here in little plastic sachets, branded with names labeled as "the truth pure water" or "the lord for drinking" or "heaven's thirst". today, when the heavyset ghanain mama handed me the sachet, it was wrapped ... Read more >
Tags: Lost!
GHANA | Thursday, 19 Apr 2007 | Views [2820] | Comments [1]
you could spend eternity in the hollowed out entrails of a wooden unicorn, or sleep away forever in the back seat of a four by four fashioned out of mohogany. its funeral fashion, and its a ghanain obsession. death is the biggest party you'll ever have, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
GHANA | Wednesday, 11 Apr 2007 | Views [1879] | Comments [4]
please, tell me if you've been here. i want to know, if you've travelled through my wor(l)ds or journeyed on your own. i hardly know who you are, if you have visited this site regularly or avoided it until now. share. exchange bits of your mind with mine.... Read more >
Tags: Friends
BURKINA FASO | Wednesday, 11 Apr 2007 | Photo Gallery
a multicultural melange of imagery
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GHANA | Monday, 9 Apr 2007 | Views [719]
here in ghana. he's being reborn every couple of feet in the form of forever church services, signs that proclaim his immortal presence and missionaries that perpetuate this preaching epidemic. all the businesses her reflect that: how about 'jesus is ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
GHANA | Sunday, 8 Apr 2007 | Views [1509]
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
GHANA | Sunday, 8 Apr 2007 | Views [735]
ghana is one of the worlds largest producers of, yes, CHOCOLATE. and my goddess, what could be more amazing than hiking through eighteen kilometers of chocolate forest?!! beans glistening on the trunks in all their rich expensive exportable glory. and ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
BURKINA FASO | Sunday, 8 Apr 2007 | Views [943]
its been so long since i've posted anything, even though i write pages and pages everyday. so-here's the last story of the previous chapter of that other lifetime when i was in burkina faso... i was ready to go, after a month of never speaking english, ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
MALI | Sunday, 4 Mar 2007 | Views [722]
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 | Sunday, 4 Mar 2007 | Photo Gallery
photos compressed-do not enlarge! (really bad quality)
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MALI | Friday, 23 Feb 2007 | Views [1056] | 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 [635] | 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 >
Tags: Culture
MALI | Friday, 23 Feb 2007 | Views [800]
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 >
Tags: Culture
SENEGAL | Monday, 29 Jan 2007 | Views [883] | 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 >
Tags: Culture
SENEGAL | Thursday, 18 Jan 2007 | Views [752]
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 >
Tags: Culture
MAURITANIA | Wednesday, 17 Jan 2007 | Views [2159] | 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
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