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Facing Inside Surfaces
texts from my research in Kenya
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Guests & Gifts
The homestead gate opens. A man holding a small boy’s hand walks through. The man has the little boy’s colorful backpack in his other hand…
Nicole Rademacher
Aug 3, 2014
In Stereo
In Stereo
I need to skip ahead to Saturday evening and go back to the neighborhood walk later. Jane, the kids’ mother, called to say that she would…
Nicole Rademacher
Aug 3, 2014
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Being invisible in the pitch black
In the small mud-floored kitchen, around the kitchen fire bordered by 3 large stones (to put the pots on), the middle son is home with his…
Nicole Rademacher
Aug 3, 2014
How long is 10 years?
How long is 10 years?
‘So he is your husband?’ I ask. She nods yes.
Nicole Rademacher
Aug 3, 2014
Black Onions
Black Onions
First she peels them, and then she grates them. She is *Faith the “house help”. Kenyans don’t like skins, she explains. Actually, she tells…
Nicole Rademacher
Aug 3, 2014
Wash Day
Wash Day
Esther washes all the clothes on Saturdays. “I don’t have help come in, so Saturday is the only day that I can wash everything.” Almost…
Nicole Rademacher
Aug 3, 2014
Cooking
Cooking
*Wanjiru doesn’t like to cook, but she has been cooking her whole life, she tells me bluntly as she picks through the red mung bean (a bean…
Nicole Rademacher
Aug 3, 2014
A third note from Kenya
In Nairobi, you can make time stand still. I’m contemplating the stationary second hand on the watch of the woman next to me. She quietly…
Nicole Rademacher
Aug 3, 2014
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