Is this really my life?
I sat in the middle of a thorn-bush enclosed livestock corral on the side of a mountain, flicking flies out of my Samburu chai with a twig, thinking, “Is this really my life?”
I sat in the middle of a thorn-bush enclosed livestock corral on the side of a mountain, flicking flies out of my Samburu chai with a twig, thinking, “Is this really my life?”
Nothing makes you consider what a faithful life looks like than that moment when you’re knee deep in the clinging mud of a freezing stream, trying to pull a floundering ewe to safety. In short, the biblical imagery of believers as sheep? Accurate. But maybe not in the way you think.
Nairobi has chocolate chips and Corn Flakes and Snickers. Surely, somewhere in this blessed town, there is a horseradish.
I unplugged this year. I’ve had a hard time plugging back in. Until now, thanks to help from Amanda Palmer and feral cats.
The evening sun angles to the west as I finish dumping the last 50-pound bag of feed into the tall round feeders. The lambs crowd around, nibbling the corn and […]
The revolution of the Earth around the sun is the perfect lesson of how it should be / So if I can, I’ll learn / to journey and return / […]
Insomnia is a delightful souvenir I never expected to bring back from Kenya. It visited me again last week. As I wrestled with gritty eyes and a bad attitude at […]
This is about self-denial and sacrifice. This is about death and life. This is about not playing it safe or, quite simply, risk. As I write this, Ebola has stuck […]
They call him “Baba.” Every morning, he takes the arm of a young boy, and walks the dusty path from his village to a rambling house. The gate creaks as […]
I emerge from the past several weeks victorious! That’s how I feel after tackling these design projects. It took time, but I’m pretty excited about the results. Curious about what […]