Author: aleolivieri
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Samburu
In rainy Samburu, one small ray of sun broke through the clouds. Wrapped in a shuka, hearing champagne pop behind me, I felt the raw magic: deep connection to land, animals, sky—and something loving and ancient.
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Overheard on Safari II
I have been collecting sayings for a while, there is magic and wisdom in half-overheard conversations or in great one-liners delivered in wild spaces. We seem to be able to breathe more freely in the wild and that’s when real life advice or just very odd phrases come out. Either way, they have all been…
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The Wishing Tree
Airports have been a strange but soothing constant in my life. From a young age, dragged by my mother’s insatiable thirst for seeing new places I remember airports. I remember smells, I remember feelings, I bathrooms, I remember meals, I remember lounges, I remember much happiness, I remember much sorrow. I find a strange comfort…
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Overhead on Safari I
Since as far as I can remember I have been a collector of people’s sayings. My grandmother used to have a book where she would write down famous quotes and sayings, and we would always be fascinated by the content. True to the way she was, she collected mostly insightful sayings with some sort of…
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Mery
By Venezuelan standards, I have always been defined as an “intense” person. Not quite the same meaning as the English word carries I would imagine, but it gives an idea of a person constantly looking for something spiritual or emotional. Being an “intense” person in our slang just means you are one of those people…