before i grade, let me ask
who’s keys are these?

who decided to entrust my
holey pockets
with such important instruments of access

Mosque, VBS, Aussies, a mountain hike, and jungle school.

Purpose. The word of the day is purpose.

I didn’t write yesterday, because yesterday was relatively uneventful. We met with our host family and went through a brief orientation and schedule overview for the upcoming week-and-a-half. For the longest time leading up to the trip, I struggled to iterate to people what we were…

I’m writing partly because I want to document our trip, but mostly because at only 7 PM local time (exactly 12 hours… ahead? behind? central standard), I’m in a cage match with jet lag, desperately staving off the finishing move. The concept of time has been more of a timid suggestion ever…