i noticed today how particularly african everything looked. i don't usually think about it. i live here. it's like looking in your backyard and noticing that it has grass.
but today was different somehow.
maybe knowing that i'll be gone soon has opened my eyes. like people who survive near-death experiences only to notice how fantastically blue the sky is. and the sky was incredible today. a few clouds back and forth in front of the sun, giving off that perfect crisp light. and it may have been because of that picture perfect light that i noticed everything else.
the hill behind my dorm has rows of trees stacked on top of each other, one tiered over the next. palm trees and banana trees and hazy blue hard wood trees all moving in the warm air. today they stood out so sharply. birds were singing and shouting from all over. i could hear monkeys and black flies. it smelled green and sour like fallen ripe fruit where butterflies and ants came in twos and threes and twenties to drink up the juice. and last night's rain left the ground an extraordinary orange.
i noticed all of it. and i was a little in awe. my friend carissa (who you can thank for the newly designed blog. she's an artistic genius in more ways than one) gave me a quote yesterday.
the miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. if no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world.
dandelions. the most delightful of forgotten miracles. and today i tried to remember all the miracles i could. bees and pollination and avocados to eat off the branch. bird nests and moth wings and fallen trees. and i got to look them all in the face. a landscape out of national geographic or a child's imagination. i live in it.
and soon i wont.
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Oh bother. I hope packages arrive before you leave.
And can I just say, WHO called the head shave?? Who?? Who??? And who's press did you use to print this???
Hmmm!! Dandelions "the most delightful of forgotten miracles", I have to mull that one over!!! True enough as you get ready to leave, things will look as new as when you first arrived.. Annie, again I say that I hope you have all of these blogs somewhere they can be accessed. What a wonderful log to have and you have said it so beautifully! thank you. And, I do hope you had a beautiful Easter too.. Hurry home!! Love you, Nana
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