There's an African term for this, too: ubuntu. It's from the Zulu/Bantu languages and means I am because we are. The term has come to encompass a philosophy of human kindness. I like that notion: I can be kind to you, because you are in fact a part of me.
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Raleigh Drum Circle Birthday Bash. Photo by Heather Hartzog
And here's the thing: your djinni, that spirit and those gifts and talents you were born with? They aren't really for you. They were entrusted to you, for the sake of all of us, to benefit larger life.
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Jabar learned drumming by spying on the temple, literally hiding behind bushes and peaking through walls made from palm fronds to avoid being chased away by the drummers in the Dugu rituals.
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It rained for a week. From the balcony in a clear moment we could see the Rock of Gibraltar in the distance, and beyond it, across the Mediterranean Sea, the shores of Africa. An hour's drive and another hour on the ferry landed us in Tangier. Three more on an overnight train took us to Fez, the oldest continuously Muslim city on Earth.
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