
In Ghana, I see poverty — and resilience I am awakened by a crowing rooster like clockwork around 3:30 a.m. By morning birds whose songs rise with the cacophony that surrounds my new home away from home. A rumbling heavy motor cracks dawn. Neighborhood dogs bark and howl. Big black-and-white birds flap above the coconut […]
Henry David Thoreau, philosopher of post-traumatic growth
