She lived in
Malawi a while ago, and when she would travel by car and meet donkeys on the
road, she would look longingly at them, as they baked stoically in the East
African sun.
On her bookshelves,
amongst her many volumes, one can find The Wisdom of Donkeys, by Andy
Merrifield, and on a coffee table a book of pictures of donkeys, a photography
project by Oliviero Toscani. To top all this off, on her bedside table she has
a stuffed toy donkey, a reminder of a live one I adopted for her as a Christmas
present one year.
So, last weekend
we went to the animal fair in Lamego, and she just bought one. Well, in fact,
she bought two: a mother and a two-month old female foal. The mother has been
named Cinza, the daughter Nubia, perhaps.
A dream come
true if ever there was one.
