Everything The Light Touches

Handsome

An ode to my best friend, a immigrant pup born in Zorge (a village in Burkina Faso), raised in Aorema (another village in Burkina Faso), and happily enjoying his retirement in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Simba Ouedraogo

The first day we met, Simba was a tiny puppy in a cardboard box wrapped with barbed wire, with some holed poked in it. The box was growling and shaking. I strapped it to the back of my bicycle and biked 70 kilometres from Zogre to Aorema over dirt and rock roads, under the sun, during Harmatan (a season of dry, hot wind that severely slows down biking). He was not happy to meet me when I opened the box.

Now we’re best friends!!!