Another one on my list

It appears that I will be going to Africa this coming June... Kenya to be exact... and even more exact- a small city called Migori and another even smaller village named Kopanga. After months of talking to the powers that be, that I needed something to happen in my life, some kind of adventure or new direction, a friend thought of me during conversation with someone she knows needing to find a photographer of sorts to document her group, Partners for Progress, charity work in Kenya. She passed on the information to me via email- repeatedly saying no pressure on this, you just popped into my head during our conversation. Well, what more can someone ask for. It felt like divine work to me! So on that note I talked to Mike and said, "I'm going... are you?"

Africa has long been on my list of places I wanted to see before I left this planet and it is now tangible. I dream of seeing the vast plains, and oh... the animals... the large herds, the elephants and lions, and to see and meet the beautiful people who inhabit this big land. If I close my eyes and think about it I can smell the warm air drawing me... closer and closer each day.
It is with such a full heart that I prepare for this journey, this adventure. It brings back the feelings I had prior to going to Peru- the feeling that my life was about to change, and so welcomed a thought. One can never be the same after traveling. Like Peru I know Africa holds ancient energy- and I know too that all I see will not be pleasant or easy to see, that my heart will bare witness to much human suffering, and as that acknowledgment is deeply felt I can in the same instance hardly contain the anticipation I feel to stand upon the earth there... to feel her, and soak in all that she has to teach me.

I have much to do and prepare for as I will be photographing the work being done at the clinic and telling the story of this village, Kopanga, so that others may see and be moved and inspired to reach out as these doctors and nurses of Partners for Progress have done. Check them out at- uspartnersforprogress.org

Thank you Universe! Bless you -bless you- bless you.