Ears twirl, big bellies pink — massive bodies built to sink and thrive in water. The bizarre beauty of the hippo captivates — beware vicious gape. Tails splash, pods keep cool ~ rivers feed soda lakes in Ngorongoro.

Wings over water her awesome expanse unends - Lake Victoria.

Kwisanga: feel free, feel at home, you are welcome - here on Gahinga.

Gum tree wood in rows tied with eucalyptus bark - village ripe with farms.

Trekking the tracked trail steep climb to meet the Susa, Fossey's family. Three great silverbacks, two babies born weeks before mother's nurse their young. Silver green gum leaves like the lava rock path through potato and sweet corn farms.

Baking in hot sun, building blocks of building blocks - homemade home making.

Drink water when you climb Rwanda’s tallest gorilla palace.

Sleek coated goats graze roadside, women balance bounties atop their heads ~ strong necks carry bananas, sticks, and woven baskets. Roots writhe and wrap through red rocks, a mountain carved for modern passage. School children walk home for lunch, uphill and uplifted, by the looks of their smiles and waves. Perfumed air: stunning notes of … Continue reading more than a drive

Divisions decided by some external hand,granted galeforce destruction by brutal demand.Morality absconded, humanity’s cruel abandonfor the fulfillment of some ideological cannon.“The final solution” only finalizes the demise of the preacher,yet why does history recycle this vicious mask of the reaper?2 million dead.300,000 orphaned.100 days. 259,000 buried in3 mass graves in Kigali alone.Children — their lives … Continue reading a genocide of generations