To Be Greater Than

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”  --Ben Okri

We didn't have time to hear her story.  We were rushing to stay on the schedule, to make it back in time.  To return to where I do not know, since the most true thing was the green of her fields, the honest determination in her eyes.

This is what a drive-by shooting looks like.  Just a split second with the truth.  Still, while we took what we wanted, she gave.  Willing to show us, though we didn't have time for silence or words, what it looks like to triumph.  Glad for us to know if only for a minute, what she could do with her mind, that green and her hands.

Comments

[Wanda]

Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

[Annette]

Stunning!! Those eyes!!
Wise words.

[Lilian (mamaayanna)]

The people in Africa are just so beautiful! So pure often. I see swahili written on the Kanga, where is this taken? I am Lilian, by the way, new to blogging. Very excited to see all amazing and inspiring women out here!

[tracey clark]

amazing portrait jen.

[Angel]

Beautiful. You have a gift for "seeing" people and finding their inner self.

[Rebecca in Switzerland]

Love how you can see her Sassy Side. Amazing how you can capture that in a moment. Not like capture and pin it down, either... but let it bloom and spread. Good stuff.