(w/photo of Lilac-breasted roller)
Wednesday
Many blog posts ago I promised to share the quote that caused Kathleen Krueger to dissolve into tears when I handed it to her with a thank-you gift for her and husband. They lived in Africa for much of the ‘90s. Here is the quote that sums it up for me:
“I believe the chief gift from Africa to writers, white and black, is the continent itself, its presence which for some people is like an old fever, latent always in their blood; or like an old wound throbbing in the bones as the air changes. That is not a place to visit unless one chooses to be an exile ever afterwards from an inexplicable majestic silence lying just over the border of memory or of thought. Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.”
--Doris Lessing
