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Schlepping Life Around the World This blog is about the urge to move and explore: It is about migration, traveling and going for walks. It ponders questions of why and how, where and when. The self-assessment of a foreigner who will never cease to be foreign. It spans from trite observations on emigrant life to personal reflections on being a stranger. It covers all forms of voluntary leaving: temporary or forever; to faraway places or the townbelt, from a country, a family, or an address. It’s about leaving places that you love, and explocommunity when there is nothing to find.
An American in Paris, making her way through the rest of France on the weekends!
My cheek is smudged with red clay.
African soil keeps me grounded, dirty, alive. Gives me perspective and cause for alarm. Dusty, wet, preoccupied by irony and deceit, beauty and angst, the fragile and the strong.
Beads of sweat trickle down my spine over time and through the valleys of this continent
for over a decade.
I could escape it but only tangibly.
The unmistakable pattern of living this life in this place is a tattoo etched on my psyche, coarsing through my veins. Forever.
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