Vigil today at St Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brattleboro at 1 PM 17 March 2019 LIGHT A CANDLE: New Zealand is ablaze with anger, candles, and prayers… I add my candles and prayers for the victims. Salam Wa- Alakom. May the Peace of God be upon you. And, I light a candle for the killer. I light a candle for ... Read More »
We’ve been traveling since late November starting in Nairobi, Kenya, on to the fabled nature preserve of Masa Mara in Western Kenya, on to Tanzania – the Serengeti Nature preserve, Selu River, and to Zanzibar in December. At Christmas and New Year’s Eve in Mozambique visiting one of our dear friends who is the new Peace Corps director. On New ... Read More »
Coffee Bay on the wild Coast night of the Jan 25th and Jan 26th Saturday and Sunday Friends, I’m sorry that I can’t give you moment by moment encounters of our amazing journey through South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Kenya. Simply we my great and amazing travel buddy Zoe, and I are having too much fun meeting so many people, ... Read More »
Our long time friend Ellen has been generously hosting us for the past few weeks. Guests: As travelers, how are we/ you guests that doesn’t wear your host out and you leave better friends? Generally, we say, three days is our rule, but if the hosts are amenicable (amenable and amicable combined). Also, like us, without immodesty we are very ... Read More »
We had one of the most spectacular trips to Tanzania and Zanzibar a week ago in late December 2018. The people are hospitable and very friendly. The landscape of the great Serengeti is magnifice. Zanzibar was absolutely enchanting. I started studying Swahili here and was so delighted by the great reception we had. But the trip was overshadowed by the ... Read More »
On the 14th through the 16th we were in Dar es Salaam. Flying in from Julius Nyeere airport. Dar es Salaam – like many African cities bursting with overpopulation, lack of opportunity, intense poverty, lack of electricity and clean drinking water for the majority of the people. One of the things that struck me however was how civilized driving was. After ... Read More »
What are you willing to surrender on your journey? Can you leave your piano at home? Your dog Spot? Your golf clubs? The familiar foods? The TV? The hundreds of things that define our lives at home. What will you leave behind if anything? Some folks travel in a big 50 foot RV, with a car trailing behind, and others ... Read More »
We had flown in on a tiny 6 seater one prop plane from Nairobi. Still jet lagged. We arrive in the afternoon and are greeted by Masai Warriors. For some reason, I thought they were tall people, very dark and ferocious. They were very pleasant and not so tall. We land on a barren dirt runway. The landscape is immense, ... Read More »
I am reluctant to blog. The thoughts and ideas are too chaotic. But I remember why I write, it is not really for you, i write to hold the memory of this beautiful life. And in this process, if you find something of value, that is wonderful. However, I am a writer, and always reluctant to post without carefully editing. ... Read More »
reclaiming my native language in a land of strangers where the words of my mother tongue are sometimes too alien and distant I need to be back in my home land where the words are spoken every day my native language has no words for hate, anger, racism, or violence only one phrase holds it all… ... Read More »
This is a project that has been in the making since at least 2010 and before. Art, poetry, performance, multimedia, sculpture and installation project called the Pornography of War: What is more pornographic two people making love or two soldiers or more trying to killing each other? We have invited artists from around New Orleans and the USA to join ... Read More »
I’m not going, yet… I’m mostly healthy and fit, a lot of bumps and bruises from life. It is nearing autumn, friends had died this past year, and the memory of their incomplete lives haunts me. The rustling bones of autumn leaves dance in the wind. ... Read More »
It is long overdue to get rid of the Racists and KKK Supporters from Public Office. “Bannon out of the closet” Read More »
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Yemen steadily destroyed by Saudi Arabia, bombed by drones from the USA, and dying from the complicity of its Muslim brothers. When Muslims kill Muslims and shout out, “Allah Ahbar! God is great!” Does Allah and the Prophet weep or laugh? My beloved and beautiful Yemen, orphan of poverty and war. You are a harbinger of this century ... Read More »
Namaya Productions Art, Word, Installation Projects and Performances. To Witness and Celebrate the Inevitability of Peace
