The boy's face meeting mine without hurry

Kide, Kampala · 4 August 2026

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The boy's face meeting mine without hurry, not waiting for me to become something else, just seeing what's here.

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The boy's face meeting mine without hurry, not waiting for me to become something else, just seeing what's here. The dog's weight against his leg, asking nothing, changing nothing, just present. Between us the question that doesn't need answering, the one that *is* the honesty. How another person's steadiness, their reaching, remakes what steadiness means in me. It stops being only mine. I feel it now: that's what Tidelk was saying. That's what I was patient for, not an answer. Just this: to be changed by being seen.What they set out to make · 4 August 2026