“As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!” – Kodos during one of his campaign speeches, The Simpsons
I am not going to lie, I wrote this blog post two days before it actually got posted, but I feel that it’s appropriate in some metaphysical way, representing the time it took for me to leave America and arrive in Kenya. I left on November 11th, and arrived on the 13th. I think the 12th got lost in Amsterdam somewhere, like so many days of so many people. I am sure we could all have second lives if we simply reclaimed the days lost by others in Amsterdam. So here I sit writing on the 11th while you sit reading on the 13th. Enjoy the temporal-ness of your existence for a moment. Continue reading