A lot on my mind

There’s been a lot on my mind lately between the stories I’ve been working on during the day and the reports I receive from home at night.

It’s crazy what my parents are going through. I’m not comfortable sharing the stuff here, but maybe as some time passes, I will. It’s not anything major in the sense of health or relationships. The false rumors of the local coconut telegraph already circulated that they were separating. How that got started we’ll never know. Mom and Dad joked that they should start making out in public.

Actually as a duo they are doing quite well. I get the sense that they are really there for one another right now.

I’m reporting on the crisis that I’m living. That’s a little weird. I have a lot on my mind, yes, but I could have more on my head.

I was walking behind this woman with bananas on her head. The plate wasn’t even teetering. Most of us carry out burdens inside our heads, not outside. In Uganda they do both.