avocados

Avocados and Missions

Over four years ago, we planted this avocado tree in our compound in Cameroon. We chose several seeds from a variety we like, sprouted them, then planted them in buckets. Later, we put the most vigorous one in the ground. This October, we caught up with it, and considered a Read more…

By Kent, ago

Rough Air

I was intrigued on this trip to see the euphemism “rough air” replace the long used “turbulence.” Probably some focus group somewhere preferred it, but anyway, I thought it was not a bad description of some of the chaos we’re going through these days —whether you see it as turbulent, Read more…

By Kent, ago