A shot from this morning’s Super Bowl viewing party in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Wake up call was 2:15AM … and the boys haven’t yet gone to sleep …. We watched the game in a State Department home, thanks to American Forces Network … which meant no...
Glimpses of the Unad...
posted by J
It was thrilling to find this twilight scene in Zanzibar. Scores of young men were lined up along Stonetown’s water front … waiting for their turn to launch themselves in to the Indian Ocean. Some did flips. Others soared. A few belly flopped. One young man barely cleared the...
Mountains of Memory
posted by J
(NOTE: That’s not an inappropriate finger thing going on. It’s the FOURTH finger, the ring finger, celebrating Eugene and Elaine’s engagement. They’re the fourth and fifth folks from the right.) Earlier this week, I was listening to a long-term missionary who’s...
This Darkness
posted by J
As I write, some close friends are working with a team somewhere in America — in the dark — to bring light and help to people who need it. Also as I write, our small Zanzibar guest house is without power – in the dark. Minutes ago, I was expressing my disappointment to the front...
Slave Cave Proposal
posted by J
We visited a cave today in Zanzibar once used by Arab slave traders. Years ago, as British troops and ships started to enforce the end of legal slavery in east Africa, traders tried to conceal their slaves in secret places until high tides and darkness made their export business easier. So,...