Two reasons why safaris aren’t just about seeing the Big Five — lions, leopards, rhinos, Cape buffalo, and the African elephant. We met a couple from Wisconsin during our safari. They’d come to celebrate fifty years of marriage, having been on safari in Botswana years before...
Boy Time
posted by J
A wonderful, global moment this afternoon in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A water slide. A handful of boys — from England, the US, Bolivia, and Malawi. Mud. Bathing suits. A hose. A new friend — a parent — who happens to know a former NPR colleague from college and time spent in...
Creation Space
posted by J
We read the Creation story before embarking on the first game drive of our recent safari. I’d forgotten some of the details: we don’t read about LAND until verse 9, CREATURES and MAN come much later. Creation begins with LIGHT and the SEPARATION between Heaven and earth …...