Thursday, September 16, 2021 Service
"The world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things."
— Mary Oliver

I Am the Triangular Window in a Mud Hut

I Am the Triangular Window in a Mud Hut
"I have overheard pale-skinned visitors to this refugee camp speak of windows as large as a cow and covered by glass that slides wide open. Those stories sound absurd. Such windows would be completely impractical! We Dinka windows allow in some air, of course; but first and foremost, we are designed for safety and comfort. Look at my size and shape: a triangle smaller than a cracked plate." In this beautifully crafted post, meet a Dinka window in South Sudan and be quietly transformed by what it has to teach you.

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