One of my favorite things about my job as an RP in support of the FMF deployment to Camp Lemonier was the humanitarian work. We made such an impact, it was an awesome experience to be part of. My job was to coordinate visits to three orphanages and work with the orphanage leadership on construction…
Tag: Djibouti
Internal Geography
Thank you to everyone reading from more than fifty countries. This blog has always been about the inner world — the storms, the deserts, the caves, the oceans we carry inside us. Wherever you’re reading from, I invite you to walk these inner landscapes with me and share in the journey they reveal. If you’ve…
Internal Geography:
I am so excited to announce the publication of my newest poetry collection!
Hungry
Sat down one night to Discuss, The insomniac brain Discouraged, From the Disgust, Of Devising, This Divine, Poem of Destiny, In this Densely, Populated and Dramatic, Population of the Drastic, Totally, Droopy, Down in the Dumps, Over the long lost Dunes, On the sandy coast of Djibouti, Among the long lost June Days, Watching early…
Naval Musings
Let me regal you with a tail about Marines, paint thinner, khat, and the first AIDS Clinic of Djibouti City, Africa. This will be short, but funny enough to stay around for. I, RP2(SW) was assigned the task of getting volunteers together from Camp Lemonier to go into city and renovate a space to be…
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