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"I dug some holes and watched the wind erase them."

I like this sentence. It lives here. He writes well; nothing grandiose, just streams of blunt consciousness.

I am equally enamored of this blog. It is no longer updated, but it is a lovely read. She lived an extraordinarily different service than mine. Her home was with a Mauritanian family in a small Pulaar village in the south; mine was a compound more often filled with American region mates than just myself in a large Arabic city in the north.

Differences aside, her experience is simply true.

It would speak to any volunteer, whether in north or south Mauritania, or even a country half around the world. She writes with an intensity and honesty that is exposing, engaging. I wish my own writing was like hers: more poignant, less jaded. The difference is subtle, but noteworthy. And worth a look-see.