Raafia Jessa

Musings about Normalcy

Please be aware, these are the thoughts of a middle-average person.

Rosi

(May-June 2022)

February 2022, by chance I took a rock-climbing lesson.
This is where I met Rosanna.
In between tearing the skin on our hands and growing calluses as we struggled to understand how to climb, we became friends.

At the beginning of summer, without hesitation she let me climb all over her kitchen and let me experiment on her pristine walls. She gave me her keys since this lady seemed to be on an adventure every other week.I would arrive and find her vacuuming her tent to go on a trek or looking for watershoes because she was going bodyrafting or packing her bags to go on an African safari. One day I arrived and she showed me a new keychain: a piece of metal that had recently been taken out of her ankle.

Needless to say, we had to make something that matched all the furious Rosanna energy.

A burst of Blooms

Rosanna and I in her kitchen