If you fancy yourself a loyal citizen - and mind you, I'm not getting righteous and spilling yellow ribbons from my orifices - I hope that you take advantage of the services your tax dollars pay for in your town and country. There are a ton of great services that ...
Don't have a whole lot of time to write, so this is just a short update to say that Thailand is fantastic, the food is great (albeit interesting at times), and definitely relaxing. We're going out for the day right now, and having dinner later with my old friend Piti, ...
It's been more than two days now that I've been travelling, and my body is reeling from the experience. My heart is engaged, sorting out the maelstrom of emotions which are overwhelming at the present moment. My head is rather clear though, and I'm in a calm which is certainly ...
For those of you who don't know, the calendar, the clock, and the days of the week are all significantly different than they are in the rest of the world. Here, and everywhere else in the Muslim world days, weeks, months and years are all run from a different system. ...
The third week has started, and it started with a bang yesterday. I awoke with a stiff back from swimming out on Changuu a couple of days prior, but really because I haven't let it have the proper time to heal cause I'm not going to sit still during this ...
My clothes have been hanging on the line for the last two days and they are still kinda damp. The humidity is so crazy strong that I have to wait days for them to dry. Not much else to report today. I'm going to head out for lunch and then ...
So, I awoke this morning with barely any pain. I guess running and keeping oneself in pretty good shape actually does decrease your recovery time. I laid low today 'cause I'm still not 100%, but at least I'm not in pain. I did some work that needed to be done, ...
Every time I have left the confines of my own culture and stepped into another I've been greeted by culture shock in the wake of a sickness or injury. When I stayed out on the Hopi Reservation 9 1/2 years ago, it was sickness that woke me up to my ...
Thousands of days have passed since I left Zanzibar some hundred plus months ago. And, I think nary a day I have not thought about East Africa, my past and my hopeful future of living in Zanzibar again. The idea is certainly one which is appealing still, but I am ...
Friday was a lazy day filled with very little. I sat still quite a bit, bounced around town with Marshed to Darjiani marketplace picking up a few things that I needed, and then just hung around some more.
I was told that we were leaving early Saturday morning for a picnic ...
This morning I was able to sit for awhile and take in the second prayer call, using in the beautiful hypnosis as the backdrop for my own prayers. Today was a good day. A sad day, to be sure, but a good day nonetheless. My prayers go out to all ...
Man, is my Kiswahili bad; or, as Marshed told the guy behind the counter at the Bureau de Exchange today, "anaweza kusema Kiswahili kizuri, lakini hawezi kusikiliza chochote," which basically means "he can speak Swahili well, but he can't hear a thing." It is so true. My family definately speak ...
It worked. I surprised the hell out of my family, and then they returned the favour by smashing all ideas I had of having functional Kiswahili. It was so commonplace to walk back through the doorway, into the central courtyard, up to the front door, and in to great my ...
I have arrived, safe and well. The flight wasn't nearly as painful as I thought that it might be. It was pretty bumpy all the way from Amsterdam, but I passed out a little ways in, after watching some movie which I can't remember now.
After a long line at the ...
So, weve been up in the air for about 2 hours, roughly 5 hours left, and Im starting to wane on energy. Its really only 9.44pm from the time Im leaving, but 4.44am where Im headed. Id like to get adjusted as soon as possible, because jet lag when traveling ...
It's a late Tuesday night for me, as I'm trying to make some preparations for my holiday (leaving for Toronto a week from tomorrow, and then hop on a plane on the 4th of July bound for Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania). So I'm trying to get my packing list completed, and ...
