Fighting off a jaguar
This year I became friends with a guy who, with his bare hands, successfully fought off a jaguar that jumped on his back while he was tending to goats on the African plain. I am doing something right.…
Started by squatters. Now the Dalai Lama comes here.
When the Soviet Union lowered the Iron Curtain and Lithuania gained its independence in 1990, it wasn't long before artists and rebels took up a residence in an abandoned house by the River Vilnia. They congregated in the courtyard outside the…
The universal kingdom of Kid-dom
I'm just going to leave this here, with its awesomeness of kid-dom, worldwide. I started out taking a photo of 5 kids bathing in the mangroves. In an instant, there were 40 or so, who waded out with us to the little rock island with the lone ba…
Ephraim: Preserving tradition, living with the new
BRIN, SENEGAL We start our day a brainstorming session about what would be good for me to learn about, experience and share while I am here. Customs, changing traditions and day to day life. I want to learn to fish, to climb that palm tree, cook me…
Uncharted: you are going, where?!
I'm going to Lithuania because I had to look up where the capitol is on a map and I know no one who has been there. So I will go find out myself. I'm also going to drive a tank. Uzupis is an area of the city comprised of mostly artists a…
Love it when a plan comes together.
In a field very green from winter rains, down a dirt road outside the village, my friend Ignatius is among those who are ready to build. They see the future, with a three-unit apartment building and a small house and what can be. What will be in d…
I feel like an (amazing) alien
For the Tjupan, and other Aboriginal mobs in Australia, ancestors who are deceased are never far. They walk with you on the land and are always around. You must hunt for food, and move on the land, and bring visitors in with proper protocol, and u…
Bemba marriage tradition, and I'm invited to the party
In Zambia, Bemba families have followed the same tradition for as long as anyone can remember. A man will demonstrate his commitment and his ability to have a family by paying a dowry to the bride’s parents, and there are several integral events su…
Happy New Year's
Happy New Year's everyone, wherever you may be. I wish you all the best in 2015 — peace, love and adventure. I will be ringing in midnight in Ndola, Zambia, a country I never expected to visit or thought about visiting except in that obtuse way…