Setting up base in Nairobi!
I’m in Nairobi! After a brief detour in Switzerland and some truly awful traffic (Nairobi has the second worst in the world!) I made it to my base in Nairobi. Fortunately for me, this is my parent’s house in an…
Country Kenya
Getting Ready!
Hello! I’m excited to be writing my first of many posts for my Lumos adventure. I will arrive in Kenya in less than a month, which is frighteningly soon. I’m looking forward to returning to an area of the world…
Hands
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to details around us. – Virginia Woolf First, let me be clear. My time in Kenya was not spent entirely in solitude. The purpose of the trip was…
Sustainable Development Goals
As the UN gathers to vote on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) this week, I took a close look at how WISER is already meeting these goals in its own little microcosm. After living here for over three months…
Freedom
“I had to repeat Class 8 several times because there was not funding for secondary school. That is when WISER came to my rescue.” – Leah, a WISER alumni I am learning that WISER has “come to the rescue” for many girls.…
You Are Welcome Here
“I made strong tea because I know that is your best.” Judith remembered. She remembered that I always take strong tea when I meet the girls for tea at 10 am during their school days. Strong tea is hot Kenyan…
The End of a Chapter
I like analogies. They make many of the complexities of life simpler in my brain. (And aren’t we all trying to make those complexities easier to swallow?) Whenever I am trying to mentally unpack something important, I usually have to…
The Fields of Uncertaintiy
“My own voice continues to be found wherever I am being present and responding from my heart, moment by moment. My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.” –Terry Tempest Williams My closest friends know that I have…
A Story That is Not My Own
“I have been in Kenya for over two weeks and tonight is the first night that I am lying awake and not able to drift to sleep. Every night up to this one, I have fallen into a deep sleep…
Mirror
In Kenya, a sudden rainfall indicates a blessing. As the WISER students and faculty were welcoming us, rain suddenly fell around us. A blessing. I am here in Muhuru Bay, Kenya. I am lying beneath a tree and looking at…