I had so much fun uploading pix below of events, people, and things from May 2006- ... the "cross" pic is my favorite of the pix Violette took in Europe. You're good Viol. loved all your other pix too I just love this one most because it so simply centers on Christ! the one where I'm standing in front of kids, I got off my prof's web (tssk, tssk, Thandi!) Trying to give props where there are due. Well, Enjoy!! PS, it's so hot I feel so sleepy....
The story is told that Alpha Blondy (born Seydou Kone in 1953, Cote d'Ivoire) composed the song "sweet Fanta Diallo" to thank the mysterious nurse who had attended faithfully to his mental health needs as a psychiatric patient in an Ivorian hospital. Well after he was well again, he returned to the hospital to thank Fanta Diallo. No one knew of her or even remembered a nurse named Fanta Diallo as ever having worked there. He left and believing she might have been an angel set about composing the song to thank her anyway. I have had my own Fanta Diallos, many I can't remember; and for those whose composition is not etherial; in case you ever come across this blog, thank you one and all! Here are some my brain can recall: 1. I was a crawling baby when I had wandered on all fours outside of our yard. All my mother remembers from the incident is a very irate man bringing me home. He had found me teetering on a bridge unknowingly facing, as it were, death, a short d
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