Where I'm At

Been a bit negligent in my revelations and recollections of life on this side of the Earth. So here's where I'm at:
- Traveled to the waterfalls of Mt Elgon on the 9th grade trip where we worked for a day in a rustic clinic with a patient intake of over 1000. Seeing that they only operate the clinic once every few weeks, they finally had to shut the doors after running out of medicine - can't quite shake the sound of the metal doors slamming people away like cattle.
- Still reckoning with the juxtaposition of dreams/hopes/expectations/what is/what could be.
- Lobbying for a black-box space so that drama might thrive at the school since I'm currently teaching in various classrooms around the campus (drama ain't drama when you teach it in the math room).
- Trying a new method of acceptance and nonattachment, as in, "I love your enthusiasm today..." rather than "Stop yelling and listen to each other..."
- Rehearsing for a dance/theatre piece to be performed this weekend at the National Theatre - it's about life after Obama (combination of contemporary dance, documentary theatre style monologues, and good old fashioned cheerleader exuberance).
- Engaging in collaborations both as an artist and teacher outside the school walls as I search for ways to integrate Uganda into both my experience and that of the students.
- Studying Butoh dance/theatre with a Japanese master visiting Uganda - learning to walk to the rhythm of the music inside and slowly disappear into no dance... no self.

So that's where I'm at: making friends, making meaning, making theatre, making progress, making mistakes, making choices, making chai, making it all up as I go along.
It's quite a ride this life... you never really know what you're signing on for - the reasons we use to justify decisions may in time prove meaningless, usurped by a truth too profound to envision. Who knows what will come of it all.