For all of you starting a new semester today, may you approach it with ease, curiosity, and compassion for yourself and everyone involved. Sidle up to it, like you would a wild animal you don’t want to startle.

Here at the African Studies meeting we stopped by the Indiana University Press booth. Always so great to see your book for sale and hear people say good things about it!

Creatives (a category which potentially includes all humans) require fallow time. We can’t imagine, create, or have ideas without it.
Lean in to your inefficiency.
Have an hour or a day without a goal, agenda or to-do list.
Sit with yourself. Stare out the window. Talk to your soul.

I’m a little sad not to be at the Anthropology meeting in Tampa, but our book is there! My friend sent this pic and it made my day.