We ride....
When this man brings you into his humble hut and he generously pours you endless drinks of refreshing mint tea, you drink it and you smile....... and you ignore the seepy taste of death in your mouth while you sink into oblivion upon the craziest of places God has created.
He will put ground nuts coated with sand of dessert in front of you and you will crunch every bit of it with smile....but it’s so nice..It’s such a great feeling to be so far away from home and wonder if you are any closer to where we all begin – community.
The only reason our species have been able to exist in such vast growth is because of our abilities to work together. We are offered into the homes of strangers and we eat strange foods and ask questions about the strange things on the walls.
BUT, it is us who are the strangers. This is why we travel. We do this to find ourselves in the most foreign places known to us and we are swallowed up into a whole new way of living and loving. AND I think of this every time I am back home, I think of farmers I have met and the fishermen who, as we speak, are somewhere in the world living amongst their people in smiles...
Yet I wander, with no home... no tribe... only my thoughts and a few stories I want to share with the world. I will find it someday, whatever it s I am looking for, until then I’ll stare at the sun and burn my eyes on the horizon. We ride tonight into the abyss and into the nothingness of the desert.
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Sunday, 12 December 2010
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