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How’d You Respond?
“I grew up very religious, and I was taught to think that people with alternative lifestyles were just ‘confused.’ But now it seems to me that gender and sexuality are so bendable and flexible. I’ve been going to a lot of poetry readings lately, and people present themselves in such raw forms. And they don’t…
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From the Cape to Canada – with a Giraffe
Constantia Village nestles in a basin of mountains draped with grapevines dripping wines of a quality that impresses the palates of connoisseurs around the world. And that means it attracts visitors and tourists. Which is why Mutasa and Noel have set up their remarkable collection of bead and wire creations at the entrance to the…
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Early Morning and Yellow Fever
Driving through Kampala early this morning was an easy ride through streets normally congested and choked with taxi vans, motorcycles, bicycles, cars, and pedestrians; all making their way somewhere and all vying for the right of way. A full moon dropped to the horizon casting a misty glow like a large street lamp in the…
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Preparing to Leave
Well we’re heading for the final stretch before catching a flight from Entebbe to Cape Town tomorrow that means rising at 4 am. Yesterday Micah and I did a few chores in the morning, went shopping for souvenirs and had lunch at a funky coffee shop called ‘1000 Cups’. Unfortunately while the coffee was great…
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The Road to Mbarara and Pat’s Orphanage
Last time we drove the “four hours” between Kampala and Mbarara it was an eight hour nightmare through a lunar landscape of potholes like nothing I’d ever witnessed before. This time the road has been rebuilt and the surface was a dream…. The highway is an artery of life for the many who eke out…
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Sunday in Kampala
Early this morning the night sky opened and the rain fell like a waterfall accompanied by rolling thunder splitting the heated heavens that had been wrung dry for many months. “The rains come in March,” Micah told me. “It has been very hot before you arrived.” And almost on cue as the calender rolled over…
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Encouraging Men
Unfortunately Micah’s been rather swollen-headed since yesterday morning. He had a tooth extracted and has been in some discomfort but all is much improved today. “I thought I’d better wait until you arrive and I don’t have to speak on Saturday or Sunday,” he explained. Last night I met both his daughters and his wife…
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Into Africa
It’s a long journey from the west coast of Canada to Uganda. Spent 30 hours hopping planes via Vancouver, Montréal, London, and finally touching down in Entebbe close to midnight. The air was cool and the streets mercifully quiet as Micah drove me back to his house on the outskirts of Kampala. “Welcome, welcome back…
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