Dear Traveller passing through,
I would like to tell you about an exceptional man. In your travels, look for men like him. You will be wonderfully surprised. Learn from them, share their lessons so that others may understand that we the citizens from small countries have much to add to the beauty of this world.
28.Oct.2017.
Dear America,
You have within your arms one of the most wonderful storytellers in the world.
He once described to me a shoal of fish feeding and birds flying in the air. I swear, I was not in the kitchen that morning. I was out in the fresh air, hearing the birds call, seeing the water bubbling, I could feel the breeze blow against my skin, warm with the sun, yet cool.
He is the outdoor one who took us children fishing, down-creek, up-creek, he drove us to places that were exotic to little country-side children.
Please take good care of him, America. He is a treasure. He is my father's little brother, my dearest, dearest uncle. He is eighty-one today.
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5.Jan.2024.
Dear America,
You hold within your earth, under a tall, shady tree, a treasure of ours, my dearest, dearest li'l cha-cha, my father’s little brother.
If kind deeds were riches, you would be praising him to high heaven in your Forbes magazine.
You would’ve written about his sense of humour, his wicked little smile, his sharp observations about people. You would’ve told the world how he believed in community, and the way he adored children.
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7.Jan.2024.
My dearest, dearest uncle,
I guard within my heart the many lessons I’ve learnt from you. I want to plant them and share their fruit with others because you, like my father, tried so much to help others.
I hope that you and him, my father…your li’l dada…your second big brother, were able to embrace each other. I hope your mother, Ma, and your big dada…your first big brother, and your didi…your sister…were there to greet you too; your father also, I don’t know him, he died before we were all born. You had a smile when you left this world.
May your new world be even more breathtaking in beauty than this one you showed us.
Khuda hafiz…walk with God…dearest cha-cha.