Mary Jane continually evolved with sturdy wit, grace & practiced intelligence... particularly in biology, interacting with botany, while she was also keenly aware while sussing the web of psychological systems operating together. She proved to exemplify the many roles of a successful scientist. All of which she gifted us in a teach/learning manner.
Stephen & I opined about filming her as a promotional tool for the institution. Both of us were shooting, video, with her permission, to capture footage of the wildlife grazing or trotting while listening to her often humorously insightful mental dialogues turning into instructional verbal monologues as we panned onto her happily intense facial expressions. . For me it was an exercise to learn more of what Stephen played with when making. his film BIG JOY...
While not so wild, even in the US, It was elucidated by the guys we regularly saw, once taking a bath in the dust of the ruts. They seemed particularly entertaining when MJ invented a spontaneous soundtrack with her skilful teach/learning wit.
"I think she must be clean by now" MJ quipped as she started the engine to give the cozy bird a nudge about blocking traffic
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It was she who made the schedule for our getting up & out to meet her jeep every morning for the first safari... well before our breakfasts! but enabling us to catch the earlier rising animals we enjoy, at least usually, more than another coffee... "early birds & worms"sorts of lessons. We were enjoying our stretch out of many of our ordinary. there was more music of birdsong, mixed as well with some grumblng... more grunts & slower moving creatures as they warmed out of the night's chill air. Many human similarities in trait. We found ourselves beginning to vibe more with our animal sensitivities... visceral teach/learning to take to breakfast.
We were gradually sagging in the pace of each day's hours, early & late, riding in vehicles bouncing over rough roads or rougher trails. While there were stops for drinks & snacks at least once every jaunt, we rarely had enough time to enjoy the amenities of the nice pool or the hot tubes, which needed to be scheduled an hour ahead to be heated by a wood-fire. There was little of the luxury of free-time in this resort.
We tried to stage a revolt, which was met with a genuine countering of MJ's logical context that we'd truly bought tickets to a safari, traveling halfway around the world to get to a place where we being very well fed & sleeping in very comfortable beds atop fabulous carpets ... & that is what we were getting in spades.
Teach/learning, we settled for starting a scant hour later & appreciated the bargain. We'd proven ourselves to be wild animals of our own stripes as well! A lesson we are blessed to have, take, have & hold against an ever uncertain future. I believe we all did prove we are actually educable in our advancing ages.
Home to dress for our final dinner... we wanted a good group shot of the Hippo Lakes Family Chef Pela came out at each meal to explain his menu & preview his plans
for our choices for the days meals. He was quite accomplished &
creative, often offered some of the more exotic bush-meat, tempered
with more familiar options. He always over-fed us & always served
an extravagant dessert!We were being spoiled by a finesse of luxuries quite unnatural to this terrain.
One of the last evenings she drove us in a bigger jeep for the climb... up some steep rocky trails to an outcropping at the top of one of the highest parts of the property. We could view down on the whole development. The land is several large parcels quilted together as Hippo Lakes has acquired to support them in their continual hope for additional acreage enough to have elephants & other larger wildlife.
The dream & the dreaming... grounded with obviously subtle & skillful facilitation... is becoming one big fine reality.
That sense of real space holding conceptual spaces deserves this artfully perched opera box into which to soak & float in the viewing & contemplation of it all.
... add SFS's group drinks party photo...
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chef came out at each meal to explain his menu & preview his plans
for our choices for the days meals. He was quite accomplished &
creative, often offered some of the more exotic bush-meat, tempered
with more familiar options. He always over-fed us & always served
an extravagant dessert!
Home to dress for our final dinner... we wanted a good group shot of the Hippo Lakes Family Chef Pela came out at each meal to explain his menu & preview his plans for our choices for the days meals. He was quite accomplished & creative, often offered some of the more exotic bush-meat, tempered with more familiar options. He always over-fed us & always served an extravagant dessert!
We were being spoiled by a finesse of luxuries quite unnatural to this terrain.
The dream & the dreaming... grounded with obviously subtle & skillful facilitation... is becoming one big fine reality.
That sense of real space holding conceptual spaces deserves this artfully perched opera box into which to soak & float in the viewing & contemplation of it all.
... add SFS's group drinks party photo...
This deck
Our chef came out at each meal to explain his menu & preview his plans for our choices for the days meals. He was quite accomplished & creative, often offered some of the more exotic bush-meat, tempered with more familiar options. He always over-fed us & always served an extravagant dessert!
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