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I love to WRITE but I can use a camera as well. I adore Highland Coffees that is nestled in the corner of LSUs north campus. I have spent loads of time soaking up the aroma and musings of the joint since I moved out my parents house in my early adult life. It just so happens that there is an incredibly large amount of wall space that local artist and wannabes have the opportunity of giving their best efforts for the onlookers of our cozy BR.

And just so happens that Clarke said I could do a show there!

I choose 15 of the most worthy pieces from my time in Africa in 2008. It was a 10 month stint so I got a variety of shots including orphans, widows and the ever boring nature shots. I can’t stand a shot of a flower unless of course there is some sortof friend of mine standing by it. Thanks for that revelation Jim Thornber.

Nonetheless it’s my beloved Swaziland and all it’s warm faces that brighten my world in a way otherwise impossible.

At the very least these pictures are the stories that usually get overlooked, abandoned and never told.

My heart is beating for the names behind the faces and sees that now more than any other time is a time of “telling”.

Dave Ohlerking once said that, “once you visit Africa physically you visit it everyday thereafter in your mind”.

It is true and it is deep. Africa is a place unlike this one I live in now. It’s one with so little of anything that lacking is a normalcy. It has stories that we in comfy America will never experience. It has stories that will mar a soul if it is opened at just the right amount. I love Africa but what I love more is the God of Africa, the God of this world, whom knows no difference from place or people group. Whom only knows the sound of a human heart and the ache of a desperate soul. I revel in my knowledge of Him, well that is for today at least, for this moment in my cushy, well air conditioned nicely spread out house.

Rambling now… Here’s the show…

DO ENJOY….