Rain.

It is raining. Not sprinkling or the vague kind of mist that we sometimes have in Seattle. It is rain. I can hear it, I can see the pavement darken. Nairobi, and if I remember correctly much of Africa, is in the midst of a drought. From the conversations that I have heard in the last few days I know that this rain has been prayed for and much anticipated. I have never lived in the Global South before so I have not been in a place that has experienced long-term drought. I've been in California before when there were placards asking people to reuse towels because of the need for water conservation. And in Palestine there is a constant shortage of water because of the control that Israel maintains over Palestinian water access. But I think that this prayed for and much anticipated rain is different. So far it has been raining for a few hours. We will see what the morning will bring.