June 28, 2008

Humbling Experience

Wednesday I volunteered to take Lamine, Marebo and Amara up to the Municipal Sports Center in Santa Cruz. They have been going for a couple of weeks now, to play basketball. It didn’t occur to me just how they would do this. I had a vague awareness of there being sports organizations [...]

June 28, 2008

Noche de San Juan

I couldn’t quite take in the fact that I had lived her for twenty years and hadn’t taken in the full significance and fun of this festival until last year. That was possibly because it seemed such a spontaneous and friendly festival. Of course I read it all afterwards. In many places [...]