Sat22

Oh, Dag
you remembered
–I got you something
you did?
that’s so sweet
–I got you the greatest gift one human being can offer another person
you didn’t have to do that
what is it?
–I have achieved something
Oh, gosh
well
–I made an achievement all by myself and no one can touch it or sully it with their dirty jealous fingers and no one can take it away from me, never never never
–so
–happy birthday
thank you, Dagny
–Yes.
–You’re welcome.

Just a little sumpin’ sumpin’ from The Toast for your birthday. You’re welcome!

Wishing I could offer you an actual toast with something like Lagunitas’s Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’. Happy birthday, Ryan!

Sat15

Nyuki

:: in March 15, 2014 :: in Featured, Mundane :: Comments Off on Nyuki

There’s a stall close by our house where I go for breakfast most mornings, and for lunch when I’m not in town. (Head on over to Flickr to check our some pictures of it empty on a Sunday.) It’s nice. They know my name, address me as Dada Lulu. I’m…

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Thu13

Good Things

:: in March 13, 2014 :: in Featured :: 2 comments

It made it! I couldn’t be more pleased. Or duly impressed. Ben figured out how to send me packages. To those of you with mailboxes living in a country able to support the basic infrastructure of a postal service, you may not understand why I’m so impressed. There aren’t addresses…

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Thu06

We do not know why it is raining like this. All that we know is that when it rains for two days in a row, it will be time to plant the seeds.

–Mama Shido (more stories of her to follow)

There are two rainy seasons here, one from March-May (short rains: rains daily for only half an hour to two hours, but a deluge) and the other around November (long rains: a few hours a day, but very light).

A couple weeks ago, it was raining. Early. Turns out there was a storm south of here, over Madagascar, but it was a storm so big that its spindly arms sprinkled us, too.

It’s now March. It rained yesterday. It just started raining again today. Tomorrow it will be time to plant the seeds.

Wed05

Dada

:: in March 5, 2014 :: in Mundane :: Comments Off on Dada

It’s our dada’s first day of work here today. Family relations took me a couple tries to get right here in Swahili. Easy: Mother is mama. Medium: Brother is kaka. (Yep.) Hard: Sister is dada and father is baba. I may have called a few old men ‘sister’ once or…

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