A renegade soldier is loose in Goma and militants fire more rockets in the gaza strip and Russia still refuses to pull back. In Dakar we lose power, blacking out the peninsula from Point E to Almadies, and now is a good time to remember your physics, in this universe true darkness does not exist, only varying levels of light. In any conflict or cave or refugee camp there are particles of luminescence. Hold on to that and have faith.

It’s true that no man is an island. Islands are feminine.

Isle de Gorée sits 1 kilometre off the coast of Dakar, 17 minutes by ferry boat.

Each round with added sugar to symbolize the growing sweetness of friendship.

When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then “ that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it.
— Out of the Silent Planet

plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.