23 October 2016

Here I am again, though not typing live in terms of on the web directly, but rather sitting in Ngurunit far from web connections and putting down my thoughts of the last couple weeks so that I can post as soon as I am back in Maralal and connected to the world.  Which is funny really when you think about the modern idea of being connected as being able to access internet and all the various things that entails.  In actuality, I always feel more connected to life when I am here in Ngurunit.  The real nitty gritty of living.  Meeting people and animals face to face.  Not just cute videos on Facebook.  Talking to the basket weavers as I distribute the latest payment for sales in Nairobi.  Watching the school kids sing at the class eight party and prayer day as they prepare for the upcoming exams next week.  Hauling stones with my neighbor for the renovation of my house.  Watching my dogs trying to catch the lizards that scramble away into the rock pile or the squirrels that run into their holes.  Laughing as Bruce Bruin the Almighty (Bruin or Bruce for short..) tries clumsily to dig them out while my little dog, Mouse, stands by barking commands like a supervisor on a construction contract.  One can tell, I guess, that I am not one of the ‘millennium generation’ by the fact that I don’t feel compelled to video and photograph all of these interactions to post somewhere where everyone can see my life unfold one frame at a time.  Not that I don’t take photographs.  According to my friends and family members, I take entirely too many pictures, but so few of them end up for public consumption.  On some levels, I am trying to change that.  Social media is the new communication and development without publication (advertisement??...) will never make the big statements in the world that are needed for advancement and expansion of world good!  That is the message I have been getting lately from so many places.  It seems nothing matters if it isn’t recorded somewhere on a website or Facebook or Twitter or any number of the other places the world can see it at a click of a button.  Thinking about all this is getting me down somehow.  I need to go really connect with life again for a while before I go on with this line of thinking.  I am going to go carry some water and bake some bread….