Author: chrisjohnson0207
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October 2018 – Reposition
Spit in palm, the men grab their metal poles and jam them in the minuscule gap between boulder and earthy floor with extreme precision.
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September 2018 – Anniversary
Even us mzungu are occasionally gifted with the curious, hesitant brush of fingers on arm hair while trying to recover from a weekend with a nap in the sun. Back in America, that kind of thing would have freaked me out. In Rwanda, I’ve learned to love it.
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July 2018 – Impressions, I
Concurrent motion: men in formless brown rags wheel dirt and waste between areas of activity with bare feet landing on rusted nails and broken glass, unflinching.
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June 2018 – Departures
When I returned to my humble little village in the country side, I was relieved to continue living with the familiar contradictions of my home and put some distance between myself and the contradictions of another time and place.
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May 2018 – Discipline
“When I feel my hands pressing in to the soil, it is as if I am giving an offering to something better, to something healthier and more gutturally real than what is now.”
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