Hi...Monday late afternoon...too late for a long blog this time...\it's almost nightfall and have to get home....so much to say, about traditional African ceremonies celebrating the mermaid spirt, water, dancing, music, hot, mbiras an ancient traditional instrument, giving a beautiful one, trying to learn to play a little, loud music, chanting...dancing....then the spirits coming forth....raw eggs mixed with wine, bawdy, chain smoking Portuguese fish monger...another glowing beautiful like Sophia Loren speaking perfect English....who in her mortal body a simple peasant woman speaking only Shana, by day hoeing and hacking the fields for maize planting...and that is only a little of it...

Tomorrow and Wed my last art workshop....meetings...materials....saying goodbye to people ravaged with the daily task of survival in this beautiful land, suffocating with western sanctions, which do nothing but attack the poor...everyday, inflation higher and higher..prices up, food, pure water scarce, transportation impossible, and yet such resiliance, such joy, delight, huge....despite sickness and death permeating the very fibre of each family, each person...it is natural here, normal, a way of being, a way of life. of helping each other, neighbours, friends...giving, helping, showing, assisting, caring....something so rare in our culture...makes me think so much....
Got to run...talk soon..xL