Africa

Tomorrow night I'm leaving for a ten-day trip to Africa.

I'm going with 10 other people to meet and learn from women in Cote d'Ivoire. The trip is part of a cultural exchange program: Ubuntu Explorers. Ubuntu is an African word (and proverb) that means: "I am human because you are human."

I am human because you are human.

We all share life. We all share breath. We all share sorrow and pain. We all share joys and celebrations. We share failures. We share redemption.

For the next ten days I will share humanity (some of mine and some of the Ivoirian women.)

I think this will be a journey of the "collective soul," and also a journey of the "barbara soul."