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As I sat down to work today, a middle aged black man sitting in front of a small gideon bible looked up at me and my stack of books. "You reading all those?" he asked. I nodded.
"That looks like a lot of work."
"It can be, sometimes."
"You studying history?"
"Yeah. African history in the 1800s."
"That's real important stuff."
He then pulled out a ( Read more... )

3 June 2012

Glenwood, Durban

I’m not so sure I believe

I’m not so sure I believe that

I fit in

So I rise up and look down from an eagle-eye view

I watch all you people, you’re like pieces of a puzzle

This I ponder

And it seems it’s all connected and this mosaic is a patchwork sea

And if it’s all connected a shifting mosaic on a patchwork sea

We are all ( Read more... )

2 April, 2012

Glenwood, Durban

I've been most unwilling to see this turmoil of mine

The thought of sitting with this has me paralyzed

With this prolong exposure to mirror and averted eyes

I've feigned that I've been waiting: such mileage for empathizing

And now I see the madness in me is brought out in the presence of you

And now I know the madness lives ( Read more... )

19 February 2012

Glenwood, Durban

Don’t try to figure me out

Don’t try you’ll only fail

I’m not a reed in the sand

You’re already starting to pale

Everyone’s gone for the summer again,

Something is building, I don’t understand

A hummingbird larks in my hand

But I’m too busy chasing parades

To ever love you the same

Just breathe, he’s going away

( Read more... )

27 January, 2012 | Glenwood, Durban

“Even in a strange or unfamiliar environment we might find our way, given our familiarity with social form, with how the social is arranged.  This is not to say we don’t get lost, or that at times we don’t’ reach our destination.  And this is not to say that in some places we are not shocked beyond the capacity ( Read more... )

31 December 2011

Loading Bay Café,

De Waterkant District, Cape Town

I am currently sitting at a painfully hip café in Cape Town’s young urban professional neighborhood, De Waterkant.  The tables are roughhewn wood slabs with clean granite everywhere, uber-attractive men and women punching in smartphones and pretending as if they hadn’t ( Read more... )

20 December, 2011
Nature’s Valley, Western Cape

I’m currently sitting on the patio of a hostel in the Nature’s Valley, a relatively remote spot on the Garden Route, part of the long stretch of beautiful coastline between Cape Town and Durban.  It’s 10 am, I’m sipping coffee, and listening to music, relatively alone for the first time ( Read more... )

5 December, 2011
Glenwood
Durban

South Africans have a curious habit of celebrating the beginning of a season on the first of the month, rather than towards the 21st, like we do in the States.  There’s been a lot of talk about the coming summer, and while a warm Christmas is not new for a Californian, it is a bit strange to hear all ( Read more... )

20 November 2011
Glenwood, Durban

It’s a Sunday morning here in Durban, and our fourth straight day of rain in what is shaping up to be an unbroken week of hardcore precipitation.  Mercifully I managed to get most of my needed laundry done before the deluge began on Wednesday afternoon, but there’s just something a bit psychically ( Read more... )