tor·pid
ˈtôrpəd/
adjective
- mentally or physically inactive; lethargic.
“we sat around in a torpid state”
I just came back from Doha.
Hut
The Lounge
At 4 a.m on Sunday morning, I found myself with Mutua Matheka at DXB Airport, connecting to Stockholm, and with two hours to kill. So we wandered about the airport, chasing deep vein thrombosis and passing people slumped on the carpet sleeping with their mouths open.
Man of Men
From the air, South Sudan looks like a decrepit village rising into a city. Dusty roads wind around red, green and blue roofed buildings. There are clusters of huts. You can count the tarmacked roads from the air.
Skydiving
Maina Kageni is a tortoise. That’s the analogy he chose to chicken out of a sky dive last weekend. He said he’s a tortoise because tortoises live for hundred-plus years. They live for hundred-plus years because they don’t go jumping off planes.
Northern Tanzania
by Helen Langat
You know how when you are starting on a road trip everything is tight? It’s Friday morning of that long weekend and you are worried about the time,
The Smoking Private
There is a massive red crab moving at the entrance to a seafood restaurant. Across the street, a large Scandinavian man with blond flowy hair is stripping down to his blue briefs to try on jeans from a roadside clothes vendor.
