Cry "Giddyap!"
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When life takes a turn, and looks grimweary of its load, its back all bruisedfull of muck after mucka mix of mud and thornlet not your heart feel dread.Let not the wall of courage crumbleenfeebled by angst and chaotic desire.Rather that join fretters, but to mope,ease up on the rein and let the stallion ofhope gallop.None is spared change and decay.Put your trust in tomorrow, and fix to geton your way.Don't wallow in the here and now, whenyour dream aims afarBetter to fall off riding than get detainedby fear. [End Page 56]
Bekele Mekonnen, Debre Zeyt, Ethiopia, received the Scholar Rescue Fund Award (Institute of International Education, New York) in 2006, making him the first visual artist to do so. In 2007, he won the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and, in 1998, a grant from Chicago Artists International Program. In 1993, he received the MFA degree in sculpture from Moscow State Institute of Fine Arts in the USSR. He has exhibited work and has given lectures throughout North America and Europe. He is not only a sculptor, but also a painter, poet, and educator. He is the former Director of the Addis Ababa School of Fine Arts and Design.
Bahrnegash Bellete was born in Asmara, Eritrea, then an Ethiopian province, and grew up in four different parts of the country. He attended Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa for one semester and in 1972 left for the United States to continue his education. What was initially intended to be a brief sojourn in pursuit of higher education turned out to be an extended, thirty-three-year stay abroad. He now lives in Ethiopia where he owns and operates a communications company and has been serving as the information and communication technology (ICT) development officer of Addis Ababa University.
