During my travels, I have had time to reflect more generally on what I have experienced, as well as on how I managed to capture such experience.
Some of these musings and reflections can be found in what follows.
A BOOK CONCERNED WITH AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
At some point in the past I appear to have written the text for “A book concerned with agricultural development in Africa”.
HAVE WE FORGOTTEN HOW TO NURTURE NATURE?
“Humankind, despite its artistic and technical abilities, sophistication and accomplishments, owes its existence to six inches of soil - and the fact that it rains”.
THE JOY OF THE OILY RAG
I have just completed reading Tim Butcher’s BLOOD RIVER, a description of his extraordinary journey in 2002 to follow the steps of Stanley as he traced the Congo 3,000 kilometres from its source to its mouth on the Atlantic, through some of the most inhospitable country in the world.
THE JOY OF LESSONS LEARNED
Over the decades, I have found both fun and joy from the process of harvesting, learning and sharing the lessons of experience, and I have been thinking about why that might be.