Tag: Rubona
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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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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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April 2018 – Soil
“It was strange – in our minds, the tranquility of the scene seemed to betray our preconceptions of the violence and chaos that characterizes the American imagination of Rwanda and the DRC, and as we looked more intently, we realized that our imaginations had committed the betrayal.”
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