Category: Ethiopia
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2023: Year in Review
On a brisk evening in October 2022, I took a long run through my Denver neighborhood, listening to nothing more than my labored breathing and some wandering thoughts. Elizabeth Gilbert, the best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love, was fresh on my mind after I’d just devoured her book Big Magic—an insightful self-help text on harnessing…
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Passing Through
Before each journey, we’re apt to envision ourselves as characters in foreign scenes, playing out fantasies about how our time abroad may pass. And prior to arriving in Ethiopia, my imagination had me crammed into local buses, scruffy and tired, as long, lush sections of open grasslands reflected back against my sunglasses. Nigerian afrobeats would…
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Heading Home
I’m headed home. After 3 months of weaving my way across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and Pakistan, I’m returning to the U.S., carrying glimpses of a new reality I’d previously failed to comprehend. I’m thrilled to see my family, my partner, and my friends. But I’m tangled up in the knots of purpose and place,…