A good three months and finally, here I am again. A blank word doc opened before me as I sit
down to write a blog post. Wow. I sort
of dropped the ball for a few months here.
My rule of trying to put down my thoughts for public consumption at
least once a month seems to have gotten stretched out a bit. I suppose I could start a recounting of where
I have been, what I have been doing and why no blog posts in all this
time. But I don’t think I will do
that. At least not in such a straight
forward step by step manner. I have
realized that one reason I don’t do so well on regular, routine daily, weekly
or monthly posts is that time is not that straight forward for me. Not linear at all with a progression of
minutes, hours, days and so forth. It is
more spiral like. Twisting back on
itself and jumping forward. I think to
myself I will do something just now, and suddenly several weeks have
passed. Or I feel like I have done
something a few days ago, but then realize that I have actually only thought so
much about doing it that in time reality, not done yet. And then the spiral effect. I keep finding myself doing something over
and over again, though from a different perspective, higher or lower, which
shows me I am actually doing something different, just very similar, to
before. Not just in the normal idea of
routine, like eating, sleeping and so forth, which is a normal part of life,
but in more profound ways, such as finding myself doing the same overall
physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual patterns of life in an endless
series of activities, projects and aspirations.
In many ways the same, but in practical details quite different. Sometimes it is easier from insights gained
before. Sometimes it is harder having to
deal with the same frustrations and challenges as before.
Right now, at this very moment, I am in the midst of house
renovations on a personal level, trying to catch up on an overload of paperwork
on a professional level and working hard to get a Rotary project up and running
on a community service level. So much
that is the same as past experiences, yet so much newness too. On the construction front, we are having a
new roof put on. After months of drought
here in Samburu, our re-roofing work comes in the middle of a week of massive
downpours of rain. Imagine that. Some sort of Murphey’s law or something like
that. The workers have been trying their
hardest to take off parts of the old roof and get the new iron sheets on in
between rain storms, but not always successful.
I came home from a quick trip to town earlier, during which there was a
cloud burst, to a lake in my living room.
I had to walk through ankle deep water to get into the dining area and
kitchen. Lovely. Fortunately, my living room is currently
empty so no big issue having a lake in it.
But a bit inconveniencing, to say the least. The lake was swept out the door and there has
been a lull in the rain all afternoon.
As I am writing this, the rain is coming down again and the workers are
frantically trying to cover the gaps with the remaining roof sheets. Quite amusing actually. Though I will be so relieved when this work
is done. Note to self. In future renovation projects, do not put on
a new roof during the rainy season.
As for my Rotary project that I see I was talking about 3
months ago with high hopes to get the proposal in and start the work very
quickly, time definitely has a way of getting away from one. I’ve spent the last two or three days working
hard with our partner to finalize the application for submission. As of yesterday, I finally have high hopes
that the proposal will get in soon. By
Monday latest?? Anyway, from that time,
it could be up to 6 weeks again to hear about its success or if we need
adjustments. So, in this case time is
stretching out amazingly. Still pushing
to drill before year’s end. Fingers
crossed.
I plan on doing flashback reviews of some amazing things
that I have seen, experienced, felt, attempted and what not in the last three ‘missing’
months, but for now I will end for a bit.
Kenya is facing a repeat of elections again on October 26th,
a quickly approaching day. I will be
going to Ngurunit next week to spend the event there in the peace and quiet of
the Ndoto mountains, my place of magic. We
will see what emerges while I am there, and I will get back to you all in the
world again soon. Peace.
