Ella Kerr

After spending several years in East Africa, Ella wrote and maintained a popular blog known as “How Far I Am” about living life in a traditional Maasai Village. She has been published in a wide range of magazines including Elephant Journal, Yoganonymous, and Sivana Blog.

Sugar and Dust: Chapter One

This is what I knew of tragedy: run as far and as fast as you possibly can. The plane touched down on red African dust exactly five months and two weeks after the death of my mother. My shoulders were sore from hunching under the weight of her loss, and my legs burned with the fire of the restless. My heart slowed down the longer I stayed on that plane.

Issue 16, August 2018

Ella Kerr

After spending several years in East Africa, Ella wrote and maintained a popular blog known as “How Far I Am” about living life in a traditional Maasai Village. She has been published in a wide range of magazines including Elephant Journal, Yoganonymous, and Sivana Blog.

Sugar and Dust: Chapter One

This is what I knew of tragedy: run as far and as fast as you possibly can. The plane touched down on red African dust exactly five months and two weeks after the death of my mother. My shoulders were sore from hunching under the weight of her loss, and my legs burned with the fire of the restless. My heart slowed down the longer I stayed on that plane.

Issue 16, August 2018

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