I am reading a beautiful book, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and a mere 130 pages into it; I am so taken by the author’s way with words.  It is especially speaking to me during this journey.  “…so we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying.  Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity.  That’s what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.”  And here is where I am, surrounded by people building their own lives, with their own hands, climbing my own personal Everest so to speak, living each moment in slow motion, living in African time.