Full and Empty: Off the Grid Emptiest Stories

By Yahya Jongintaba

Years before being taught bedtime prayers the child was told bedtime stories that helped prepare him for the present existential crisis of too-fullness. During the single-digit years of his life the stories he was told meandered wanderfully and cultivated in him a fanciful sense of wonder imagination and the interrogative outlook he would need to weather full-flowering adulthood. Now at the dawn of his second decade of life on mother's earth the same stories of his early childhood are told to him at a level of erudition that ushers him into adult maturity not full but empty yet childlike. The evidence of success in this creative evolution is seen in each story's illustration painted by the child's own hand on his own homemade recycled paper using pigments he mixes of flowers plants saps soils and stones. These pigments are gathered from about the valley beneath Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains on the acreages of homesteaded forestland in which he dwells with father and mother in earthen housing surviving and sustaining on rainwater-drinking foraging gardening composting fertilizing seeding planting and harvesting. Those who read properly these shortest stories ever emptied shall be primed and prompted to join us tackling the existential crisis of too-fullness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B6XVT9TV
• ISBN13: 9798841066095
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"