Summer Break Is Over

My delay in writing on Bush Bees is due a very relaxing 6 weeks in Virginia, where I couldn’t be bothered to write much.  However, as I am now back in Tanzania I feel that I would like to pay a quick tribute to a chapter of our lives which has come to a close and to get very excited about the new one we are starting. 

Grant and I have sadly left Mwiba, but are staying in a similar field still in Tanzania.  Mwiba has meant a lot of things to me and the 18 months which I spent there were filled with experiences that I would not have had anywhere else…Although a relatively short period of our life and careers, it has added many more tools to our tool box.

If peoples lives can be compared to an art collection, each piece representing an aspect, job, relationship and so on, which in the end can be compiled into a complete collection, each piece symbolizing something individually but all together telling a bigger story, then to me Mwiba is a distinctive piece of my collection.  If this is a fathomable idea, then the Mwiba piece may look simple and may not have taken long to create, but it is a piece which means a lot and in some ways has defined my “style”.  Mwiba will always be an important piece of our lives, but all artists, whether they are completely satisfied or not eventually have to move on to another piece of work.   My next piece may be comprised of more mediums or colors, but will definitely build on the style of what was created in Mwiba.  

Stay tuned for some more exciting Wildlife Conservation, Community Development and Safari Info coming soon!

Below is some of my cousin Bailey Jones’ artwork (Bailey sadly passed away in early June, at the age of 25 and is missed dearly).