| the old pond / frog jumps in / plop! – Matsuo |
The woman advised me to keep adding firewood into the space underneath the cauldron, which caused smoke to billow up and fill the small, bathroom-sized kitchen. When it was ready the woman picked up the hot cauldron with her bare hands like it was nothing because she’s a badass…
The midnight climb heightened my senses. Sulfury rotten eggs wafted in the wind. We were 18 kilometers away from our campsite and halfway up Ol Doinyo Lengai, which is in Tanzania known as The Mountain of God. The last active volcano in the region. Talk about study abroad. Despite this scope of adventure, peanut butter…
It was a potluck at the park and there was everything from my Mom’s potato salad to my Aunt Melissa’s caramelized apple pie dessert with ice cream.
