if i'm going to be forced to listen to Gospel music, it might as well be "Reggae Gospel"

Some random thoughts that have made an impression on me recently.

Standing in the middle of the slum we live next to, while buying meat for Jack with an audience of no less than 23 people (mostly small children). Or in a hurricane of dust in the beating sun while helping to construct sac gardens. While hammering nails into bottle caps for the inside of a seed bank wall with a hammer whose handle is a tree branch. That's probably the coolest hammer I'll ever see in my life. Scooping the innards out of two consecutive tree tomatoes while reveling in the incredible softness of the outer skin on my hand. Tree tomatoes are my latest obsession and they are like dessert, crunchy seeds and really unique/tart tasting pulp. Sharing breakfast with a new friend. Cleaning the dog run while Jack chases the broom as if it were alive. So many more but I'll have to leave it at that for now.

I have no idea why, but I'm really amused by a small realization I had this past week or so. Peris has a cell phone but is rarely around it, so much like my own mom.

Got the beginnings of a little mini garden going at home. Two containers (recycled from juice and milk cartons) on my window sill an aloe at my doorstep, two little strawberry seedlings that seriously need to be planted, and two unidentifiable green leafy plants in my room. Feels so much more like my home now.

Planted maize today and had fire-roasted, locally grown,indigenous maize as dessert after lunch. Mmm MMM MMMMMMMM! So chewy, sweet and delicious.

Night before last,Shiro taught me some Kikuyu dances to this song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU_qy_7eVVk I like everything about this song and it's video, minus the little shout out to "Jehovah", but you know, whatever. The artist and video both just ooze good vibes. Really the perfect pick me up if you ever need one.

Oh and Jack has decided his second most favorite meal (tea is #1 since, alas he is my dog) matchboxes, complete with matches.

Going to try to post some photos up over the weekend!

Now everybody get off of your computer and go "shake the booty that Jesus gave you".