8/19/2002:
na me dis o! weh ah dey fo' Wum... fo' inisde ma own compound. pidign is coming along. today was long. reached Esu by 12:30pm. left Ukpwa around 9am. the path was wet and muddy at times, but generally good.
Yusuf came along. he, Mu'aath and i talked the whole way... in a musical chairs of language. Yusuf speaks arabic well. likes poetry. good guy. well read. well spoken. has baraka on his face... on him generally. we laughed more than a few times. at ourselves mostly.
Esu to Weh wasn't bad. Weh to Wum was less than good. rain/mud/motrocycle. we made it though. prayed dhuhur [midday] in Esu. 'asr [afternoon] in Weh. wait–fajr [dawn] in Ukpwa. maghrib [dusk] and 'isha [evening] in Wum.
a prayer punctuated path. may they be accepted, insha'Allah.
IMAGE: i may have used this photo before... but this is where it's particularly relevant. this was the state of the Weh-Wum road that i described above as "less than good."
ReplyDeletethere's a lonely chicken in the woven basket just below the blue tarp on the roof of that van! :(