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Melting...shweating

We are here. We have reached the farm, unpacked our bags, shopped for our first groceries and lay down on our new bed for our first nap, only to realize we can't sleep because of our racing minds and also because of the weighty heat...and no air conditioning and no working fan.

Our accidental inauguration into life on the farm/boarding school was to come upon group presentations of the students who were assigned to preform a cultural dance. I love to watch people dance and to watch these Xhosa kids dance and make their own beats with empty washing buckets and by slapping their thighs and stomping their feet and being responded to with whooping from their audience is about the best kind of dance I can imagine watching. Imagine the feeling of being somewhere where good dance is happening, like people are circling around a particular person and there is good energy and people are happy because that person they are watching is impressive. Well this is like that except way, way better. Like chills and possible welling up better.

Shine

I wonder why we are the way we are

and why we only love each other from afar.

This is how we are fading

   time.

You spend your days watching the door

You spend your whole life waiting, but you don't know what for.

You have everything you need right here

    still you want more.

This is how we are fading

   time.

I didn't come here looking for a soul

I'm a spirit trying to be human

but I'm thinking, this is how we are fading

   time.

Hold onto yourself, you're afraid that you might get left behind.

And so you hide your eyes, you're afraid that the lies will make you blind.

But it's time to shine

It's time to believe in what you know

And you don't need stranth to be strong.

Time to believe in what you know

Time to believe before you go.

-Alexi Murdoch