gravity

for some reason i have come to tanzania for the year with my mp3 player loaded mostly with the Handsome Family, an alt-country band that Nate used to love- they're country by sound but their lyrics aren't-here's one song:
there's a blind man
who hears angels
he hears them whispering inside potatoes
and from the curling leaves of blooming plants
and in the winding tracks of crawling ants
He stands ouside under the sky
listening to starlight drifting by
because gravity
is not the only
force at work
in this world

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I'm here with five other women all taking a month training all living in one dorm room sharing two bathrooms- one''s from mozambique, one from lesotho s.africa, one latina american from dc, one ethiopian american from seattle, and one other american from n.carolina- we're headed by an african american woman from san fransisco who left her medical practice to come run this program in tanzania- it's a great group- as much as i abhor being encased in a group esp. in the 3rd world, i like this group.