You may not know it, but I spent three glorious months in this beautiful country last summer. Like a child first understanding the world, these were among my first words. Somehow, they just made sense – they just fit. Find yourself in Nairobi and you’ll know exactly what I mean. Nothing describes the matatu experience … More Matatu ni Matata – The Terrible Matatus
Kuja nikuambie – come here, I tell you. I’m sure it’s not intended this way, but I find great humility in this simple phrase. Probably because I so often find that listening is essential to learning about a place or a people, and understanding who people are is so important to creating any sort of … More Come Here, I Tell You
Finding Art & Peace I believe art has the power to save people. I believe this because it saved me. I am an artist. I am a poet. I am a peacebuilder. I am recovering. Funny enough, art was not always something I believed in. At least not this strongly. I was a musician in … More My Journey to Art & Peace
I was standing in the visa line at Kenyatta National Airport, when I had one of the strangest experiences of my life. Waiting on the threshold of what I’ve really started to feel is my love and my purpose, I had the peculiar experience of feeling like I was leaving and coming home at the … More When Purpose Finds You
It’s hard to believe as this incredible part of my life ends and the next begins how very far I’ve come. Just two years ago, I was returning from a very weary stint abroad in Liberia praying I would find my way, that there even was a way. Now, two years later, I’ve graduated from one … More Peace, Art, and Purpose
I think I fell in love with you The first time you whispered you can know me Through the blaring of car horns and golden cracked streets of pavement ends, where trees grow sparse as shillings. That morning you showed me beauty can begin Where others stop looking I fell in love with you … More A Warmer Welcome Still
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