A Peace Corps Volunteer’s Memoirs... Is there something in the lessons I learned that makes sense of why an Arab Muslim boy who grew up in America came to understand himself (and the world) more fully in Central Africa?
Monday, July 5, 2010
blank pages...
9/3/2002:
blank pages [in this new journal]. got that recycled quality to them. tough writing on them with pencils. anywho... i pray i can fill the pages with:
thoughts/memories/experiences
enriching/enlightening/inspiring
WORDS...
how they move us
i can't wait to move them.
i've been much guested [visited] recently. Saidu just left yesterday. Mira says she'll be coming tomorrow. the weekend w/Saidu was pleasant. a decent fellow. spoke a lot of French with him. so much that it confused my English... French came out when i wanted to say something in English, Pidgin and (on one occasion when Yusuf and Adam were here) even Arabic. too many languages. confused. WORDS!
ahhh, this paper... ça marche [will it work]??? no choice right now... that i've begun.
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what does that first page in this 4th journal say?
ReplyDeletebism Allah al-Rahman al-Rahim
words...
thoughts...
emotions...
"No matter how long the night,
the sun always rises."
Wum, NWP
Cameroon, Africa
Mohamad A. Chakaki