Active Verbs Feb26

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A familiar flower blooming in the yard. S wrangling boys at World School table. A car drives by house, blaring music and message of a candidate for Kenya’s election. Said goodbye to young men yesterday. They are new friends who are taking strong steps in hard places. Sting of goodbye remains. Reflecting ahead to next steps of journey, Malaysia … China … home.

Just read an email from not-so-faraway place: “We are now high up in the mountains and … families here live in cold, brutal squalor with little sanitation. I feel sad and angry when I see this. People are not to live this way.”

There’s a thesaurus nearby in the bookshelf. I want to dive in.

Morning. Nairobi, Kenya. February 26, 2013.