There are ten thousand reasons why the fire at the Nairobi airport, Jomo Kenyatta International, is tremendously sad, and this is the very least of it, but: I feel marked by that place, the arrivals gate, because of what I felt when I met it. Shivery and alive, unsettled and quiet, watchful while easing over to the edges. There is sacredness there.
For more on the devastating fire -- there were no injuries, amazingly -- see stories from Al Jazeera, The New York Times, and Kenya's The Nation (see also). The haunting photo above was taken by Tristan McConnell, a freelancer photographer in Nairobi.
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