Learn to appreciate what you have before that time to teach you to appreciate what you had. Normally we do not have long for. Another saying goes: the foliage prevents us from seeing the beautiful landscape.

Monkey Haiku.

This is the first attempt of writing about a banana drawing I created at a dark time of my life. I somewhat tried to write a figurative language bio using the banana character I named Mr. Bane Ripe to depict me. Instead of writing a straight forward memoir.

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In Guatemala one finds as the picture shows a small version of the Banana one would find in a Super Market in the rest of the world.

In Burundi, they plant a banana tree with the hair of a woman. The number of bananas that tree carries is the number of children she will have. Bananas are an important source of income in East Africa, Central Africa and South America.

How the life of one person changed those of many others.

This is a short story about dairy queen.

Poetry for children about monkeys.

In the region of Mumirwa in Burundi and in Rwanda you can see the houses surrounded by banana trees. These last ones can produce banana fruits and banana vegetables. One of the traditional dishes in Burundi is banana with beans or banana with fish, tomate sauce and chillies.