228. Mailbox: Open your mailbox and write something inspired by one of the pieces of mail you received. I am going to old here: I remember that the main ways to communicate with someone were by telephone and by mail, both of which are passe now. I would wait excitedly for the phone to ring […]
August 3, 2023 We saw bush buck, hippo, blue monkey, baboon, impala, warthog, buffalo, bee eater bird, Ibis, dik dik, zebra, vervet monkey, hammerko bird, egyptian goose, elephant, red horn bill, and giraffe. The 1-week old baby baboons were precious. They played and rolled around and over everyone, oblivious to their intrusion. At lunch we
227. Trash Day: Write from the perspective of a garbage collector. It’s a foggy morning in this hilly area. The streets are narrow and winding so when we stop for a pick-up, we block traffic in one direction requiring every vehicle to move around us cautiously. We pull up to this driveway that is the
August 2, 2023 I spend a weird amount of time thinking about evolution so going to the Olduvai Gorge where the Leakey’s found the earliest evidence of the existence of human ancestors. Growing up with National Geographic magazine documenting all that was being discovered there, Olduvai Gorge was mythical and mysterious and it did not
July 31-August 2 On the Serengeti, we saw lion, leopard, elephant, zebra, wildebeest, Thompson gazelle, giraffe, ostrich, topi antelope, secretary bird, hippo, heartbeest antelope, cape buffalo, goshawk, warthog, banded mongoose, lion cubs, cheetah, banded mongoose, jackal, hyena, and buzzards. Our guide was skilled at his job and found all but one thing we wanted to
