"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Monday, March 18, 2013

Becoming A Student Of An African Village

"Several times every week, usually more than once a day, I did something that made the villagers chuckle. I told myself they laugh with me, not at me. I didn't believe it. None of the cross cultural training that Peace Corps gave me my first three months had prepared me for being an incompetent idiot in the village..... I had already established: couldn't bargain at the marché, couldn't carry water on my head, couldn't sweep with a palm leaf room, didn't have a permanent man in the house. In their eyes, the first three caused the last one."
(Monique Maria Schmidt. Last Moon Dancing. 2005, Pg131)

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