And it’s about The Women’s Opportunity Center being built by my kickass friend Bruce in Rwanda. Enjoy!
Benita Hussain / writer/editor
adventure / travel / environment / art / yoga
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Canada O Canada, you blow the mind.
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This video featuring Mikey DeTemple in wintertime Montauk makes me proud to be a New York surfer.
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Afrikaner Blood, the terrifying / exquisite / hard to watch winner of the World Press Photo’s 2012 Multimedia award.
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Article up on GOOD!
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Last night’s dream
At the tail end of my seven month round-the-world trip in 2010, I found out that my baby nephew Qeb had died, which sent me back to New York and led me to end my travel blog The Hussainity Defense.Since moving to Boston in January, I have been trying to devote time each day to creative writing, particularly my essays about my family and travels to Bangladesh. Below is a vignette that came out of a night of restless sleep and involves my boyfriend, for whom I left New York.
***IN LAST NIGHT’S DREAM, Noah and I decided that we weren’t going to go rockclimbing with Saisha and her family. They were doing solo lead climbing, which we weren’t comfortable with. So we hung out at the house, and at some point, Jaid and Ziad were in the room. They ran in from another one, and they were followed by Qeb. He was so big and beautiful, laughing, and I watched him in disbelief.I kept asking Noah and no one in particular, “Is this real? Is this really happening?” I just looked at Qeb running around with Ziad and Jaid, so sweet, as if he never left us and had actually grown up a bit.
