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CAPTURED IN WORDS
BY LORRAINE JOHNSON
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[106] On Wandering
Today I wandered endlessly along unknown paths —as yesterdays I've done before. To meet with courage the wild’s calls, to meet wise...
Jan 9, 20221 min read
[105] The True Spirits
Mistaela Correia was born in 1954 in Gorongosa. When he was 12 years old his grandfather died. As was customary, his family made a...
Jan 2, 20221 min read
[104] Beautiful Happenstance
The moments appear, they ebb and flow all day long—challenging us to grow they offer choice and beg a smile that deepens the twinkle in...
Dec 30, 20211 min read
[103] The Hands In The Making
In the village, this chore always brings the silhouette of a woman or girl, though sometimes boys show up sporting their might. Mostly...
Dec 19, 20212 min read
[102] Mine, Yours
My story, Yours from where I stand from where you do the moon glows big and slithered and the sun rises and sets as flowers spread gently...
Dec 12, 20211 min read
[101] My Friend And A Journey
The village was nestled in the rainforest, over 15 miles from the main, red-dirt road that slithered the country of Liberia from north to...
Dec 9, 20214 min read
[100] Fences or Jewels
You travel far away in place to know the story only you chase the slush of snow, or rain that pours down, down saturating the earth, as...
Dec 2, 20211 min read
[99] The Passage
Time opens a passage for which to step through When we see one we have but a moment to choose The foot shifts, it leans and then boldly...
Nov 21, 20211 min read
[98] Regardless
Funny how the world just continues to turn. While on its surface waves agitate and—though not invited—move onto sacred ground, and...
Nov 18, 20211 min read
[97] Distance
It was 1995 and a very long ride of swells on a dhow to get to the Island of Ibo, with its bluest waters and pink coral, its whitest...
Nov 14, 20212 min read
[96] Through Time
I used to pluck the lines of the song and the fingers glided over the ebony chords I used to run the steps of a forgotten hill and dance...
Nov 12, 20211 min read
[95] My Friend And I
The rains would come heavy each afternoon in this hot tropical land—mostly—without fail. And those who had—even just a bit more than the...
Nov 7, 20211 min read
[94] Reading Leaves
The hour is grey. You know—that hour when many are as you, not of the earth but floating in another time and place, dreaming—perhaps. And...
Nov 4, 20211 min read
[93] Into Courage
It was a blanket of mystic and awe along the River Buzi. Its water embracing precariously those who travel along its deepness. And then...
Oct 31, 20211 min read
[92] From Where
It was at the tip of my mind where the light peeked in and asked on which path my heart should travel and my thoughts begin. On top of...
Oct 28, 20211 min read
[91] Begin Well
Chomba Chakala Chakulumamwanyoka was born of the Makonde in Miula in the year when they built the shops in Namawa village. An elder—Ndona...
Oct 24, 20212 min read
[90] Belonging
That yellow leaf that falls gently, landing by your foot new, yet familiar, as the comfort of a mother's eyes and walking barefoot and...
Oct 21, 20211 min read
[89] The Many Colors
It was July 1992 when Samsão Damangani sat down with me in the urban sprawl of Maputo City. He was 78 at the time, an old man—he...
Oct 17, 20211 min read
[88] Beyond Ordinary
The window brought me near to an ordinary day of light and dark already thought, heard, seen, even touched—before the sunrise. Like the...
Oct 9, 20211 min read
[87] The Art Of Temptation
Under the shade of tall, swaying coconut trees in the far away town of Buzi in Sofala, in December 1994, a woman—an elder—Macore...
Oct 3, 20211 min read
[86] Outbrave
A persistent siren churns in the background, as the bird chirps its enchanting song. It's all in a moment—this right to choose. Dread or...
Sep 30, 20211 min read
[85] There Was
There was a small hint of a rainbow that lingered in the horizon It is where my soul went And where my longing lingers
Sep 26, 20211 min read
[84] Hums Along
Gray, white, silver, yellow, red, black and brown goes the painting of the world— like the waves that forever come to embrace the...
Sep 23, 20211 min read
[83] Gnarled
To the side of my door, he would come. His young face gnarled with piercing eyes and burned out skin, that's what, today, floats to the...
Sep 16, 20211 min read
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