Lessons in Kenya:
When a lion lies to rest against the side of your car, you stay put.
When a rhinoceros picks a fight with another mountain of an rhinoceros at an arm's length from your eyelashes, you gun it out of there.
If a giraffe appears out of the canopy ahead, you can remind yourself this is real life and not Jurassic Park.
Backyard concerts underneath starlit nights in a neighborhood you couldn't find again to save your life can sit forever at the base of your shoulder blades instead.
Friendships built over decades and continents do not need to sit anywhere, because they are everywhere.
Sometimes love feels like lemon juice on a perpetual paper cut,
and still can be your most precious possession.
You can spend years building a stable home, a predictable periphery, convincing yourself the tranquility and safety will let you sleep soundly at night. But one day on the other side of the world, one day of wonder, of madness, of sweet fragrant tropical nights and madness in the eyes of familiar strangers, can crack open the shells you've laquered around yourself, can let your covered spirit flow out like lava into the open air, burning the reliable ground beneath you
but also
setting the sky aflame
with magic.
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