What's New?

Brand Spanking New

Crossing and contemplating cultural boundaries and wandering though parallel realities is always a walk on the wild side, opening possibilities in my brain that were invisible only seconds before the encounter.

Qu'est-ce qui est nouveau?

a confident man with 4 or 5 dozen eggs in cardboard cartons balanced on his head who is walking down the hill;

working until 3 p.m. without lunch;

carefully crafting every phrase in French only to make errors despite all my hard work;

speaking and listening to a colonizing European language in a Central African nation with an anything-but European worldview;

watching Congolese music videos filmed in Brazza with amazing hip and shoulder action;

listening to the French news headlines on Congolese television;

a colonizing mother country that isn't the United States;

few Americans;

exhaustion;

and much, much more...