Tag: africa
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Dehorning unicorns
Rhinos are my favorite. Everyone that knows me has no doubt about this. There was a time in my life when I knew exactly what they smelled like, what their voices sounded like, how soft the back of their ears was… These memories, just as rhinos themselves have started fading in the last couple of…
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Tolerance
As I was grabbing a quick bite to eat before heading out in search of activity at the hyena den, I got stranded in the kitchen by a storm. I had seen it coming however I wasn’t expecting it so soon. When it rains, it mainly just pours in the rainy season. With no need…
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Introducing Odzala
One of my friends is a life coach and she is constantly talking about the Law of Attraction and the power of manifestation – that is attracting what you want by changing the energy you put out into the world. I feel this is perhaps a more formal way of saying I like to cast…
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A Gorilla encounter
We have just returned from an amazing expedition to Odzala – Kokoua National Park in the Republic of the Congo (aka Congo-Brazzaville not the Congo where Virunga is). Before I get into downloading, editing and combining images and videos and posting about what an experience this was and how our adventure unfolded, I wanted to…
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What’s in a name?
One of the most fascinating things I have encountered in Africa are people’s names. I have found them fascinating because they are so very different from the names I encountered in my “western” life. I have met someone called Orange that worked in the same team as someone named Juice; I have met Happiness, Pretty…