“Have patience with everything that
remains unsolved in your heart.
Try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books
written in a foreign language.
Do not now look for the answers.
They cannot now be given to you
because you could not live them.
It is a question of experiencing everything.
At present you need to live the question.
Perhaps [...]

It’s not Spring until you go out and buy yourself a nice bunch of tulips.

I have no idea why these things make me so happy. Maybe it’s because it’s having a nice splash of color to wake up to in the mornings. Maybe it’s because they’re a reminder of warmer days to come. [...]

Just when I think I can’t get enough of this:

Mother Nature goes and gives me this:

What a tease.

After my little adventure in Africa, it was time to check out The Butterfly Conservatory.

Am I the only one who finds it a bit morbid to have displays of dead butterflies so close to live ones? Not that I’m complaining…just sayin’, is all.
The butterflies here aren’t shy. They’ll land anywhere, on [...]

Yesterday I went on an African safari.
I stood watch with herds of impala and oryx gazella.

I observed a family of rhinos.

I ran with a pack of wild dogs.

I observed a lone baboon through the trees.

I hunted warthogs with the jaguars.

I watched people get stampeded by a herd of elephants.

And I still made it [...]