Southern Mexico November 2010 The noise of the chain saw destroyed the silence of a beautiful sunny morning and finally became so abusive, I went out to the patio to see what was going on. I assumed the bomberos (firemen) were cleaning up the branches we had cut down yesterday and failed to remove. Instead […]
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
The seventies in New York City was the showplace for new wave foreign cinema and I became an avid film buff, dropping names like Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman, Truffaut and Goddard. The other day as I was walking up the dusty dirt road in Fundong, watching small children carry plastic containers of stream water on their […]
A Short Fairy Tale
Once upon a time in an African country, there was a lord who lived in a white castle on the top of a mountain. He was the child of two religions, Christian and Muslim, his mother was a Kom princess and his Fulani father, was a small land owner. Our lord was a self made […]
Working with adversity
Almost any time of day while I am sitting at my laptop in my tiny unfurnished house, the electric is shutting down and my fluorescent bulb blinks on and off. I finally put a flashlight next to my computer so I don’t fumble around in the dark . Yesterday the power went off at 1 […]