Timu Forest is where the Ik live. They live other places, too, like on Mount Morungole. If you’re in Timu Forest, the sun sets over Mount Morungole more or less. In early July, at least.
Timu Forest is where some mzungus live. Mzungus are white people, more or less. They live other places, too, like Europe. But there aren't many mzungus living with the Ik except in Timu forest. These mzungus are Terrill and Amber Schrock. When it is July 2012, Stephen Buerger and i visit the Schrocks in order to mourn the Thunder's loss to the Heat in the NBA finals. Or whatever our motivation was... i think it was something like that.
Timu Forest is my favorite place in Karamoja. It is a place, and that place is beautiful. But also it is a place with people, and the people aren't that bad. Admittedly, the only people i got to know reasonably well there were the Schrocks, but they are people who make people happy; that made me happy.
There is a dog (Fujo, i believe). He later stepped in a bear trap.
Mzungus go for recreational walks. In Karamoja, that is very strange.
When it rains, we get wet.
When a rat is caught and thrown over the fence, it gets caught in thorns.
The best thing to take pictures of in Timu is people who are Ik. Those pictures will come soon. They please me.
Reunion
Not mist,
but dreary haze
obscures the view
to weary sentinels
keeping watch over the west
(and the promise of another coastline).
My stomach gripped
(by thirds or firsts [octaves?]—in any case, the interval has been too large.)
embarrassingly—i should be at rest.
i still find the degree and scale
(firsts or thirds? i don’t have perfect pitch, either)
of impressions made in manicured grass
to be opaque
(even with a bit of hindsight).
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