“Priority is a function of context.” - Stephen R. Covey

I always have the knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and this time with absolutely no benefit whatsoever. While the President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was delivering an inspiring speech at my brother's commencement at Dartmouth University, I was busy running behind a Blue Jay out of desperate worry that I might never see such a beautiful bird in my life again. After all the black, red and brown birds I had been seeing all through Spring, I was thrilled to spot a blue one, with a long cobalt tail and a magnificent crest on its head.

The commemoration event and the whole exercise of running behind the bird turned out to be a situation of conflicting cues, with equally desirable alternatives - one catering to my esthetic needs and the other to my aural. There was Africa's first elected female President, a champion of peace and justice and a role model to women all over the world, giving her speech right where I was standing. And there was that enticing bird that interrupted my eagerness for inspiration.


In the end, my camera didnt catch up with my feet, my feet with my target and I was both minus one President and one bird.

“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.”

(sometimes i use the most random quotes in my post)

Here are some pictures I took while trailing the Blue Jay! It will at least add color to my text-intensive blog.