Pin Up

This young man is continually staring me out. His portrait is pinned onto the wall in front of my desk, pulled from the front page of a synopsis for my South Africa street kids project, 'I Am, Because You Are'.

Amos Trust—who facilitated my visit to South Africa—celebrate their 25th anniversary this weekend, and various friends from around the globe will be getting together in London to tell stories, share visions and celebrate what we are all having a go at in the name of this justice thing.

"Let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like a never-failing stream."

The longer it takes this project to move along, the more I realise I have to let go of my own agenda, to an extent. Each year that passes, I'm glad of having the chance to learn, have my perspective broadened and sort out a few more of the petty, fear-driven solutions I initially cling to. Tough call. This weekend is a great moment to hook up with friends at Amos and discern a few more steps on the journey, be it this project, or with Dalits in India, or schoolkids in Nicaragua. (A few hundred of those kids praying for us was one of the most moving sounds I have ever heard - but that's a story for another time.)

Slightly unnerving, but I'm glad of this lad keeping an eye on me. Accountability is a valuable thing.

What do you pin up on your walls?

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A soundtrack today which I think is the sound of someone waking up and seeing things fresh, for the first time. Mark E Everett has a great beard too currently. Hair theory strong with this one.

{Today's Soundtrack: Eels - Tomorrow Morning}