Mom's visit na kadhalika - favorite pics

Mother and daughter, reunited in A'town
On my 30th, Mom made me my favorite b-day cake, "Better than BEEP"Hunter's 'LM' mom was also in town visiting and the two moms got a little silly togetherAnd we went hiking up to a village on Meru...
as well as to our next door coffee plantation, Burkaa, where Mom saw Kili for the first time in the distance and Jazz was her adorable, princess self. My favorite Jazz line of the evening: "we can't share the cake with Sam 'cuz he's a boy and he'll eat too much."Everyday life back at the Peace House. Announcements.
Drum lessons with Paulus. He's the man. Will I ever be the (wo)man on the drums?Monduli or Bust. Hunter and I with good friends Zac and Hannah. Go V!Visiting Hunter and Peter's students Petro and Mary at their boma.Atop the well. Run water run...Drama at the breakfast table. Well, not really.

"To be with people you love
To be in a place you love
Something to do that you love
To provide good sustenance for the body
To be at peace with life, whatever that means to you."

-Another's prescription for a good life

We’re privileged to be able to think in this way, when you consider what is going on in the world, where some people have no choice...

"I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"

-An excerpt from A Summer’s Day, by Mary Oliver