Walaloo Jireenyaa - ((link))

When someone is angry or sad, remember that Oromo wisdom suggests "the wound has not yet found its poet." Instead of arguing, listen for the rhythm of their complaint. What is the metaphor beneath their words?

Life is acknowledged as fleeting—like morning mist over the highlands—but never meaningless. The walaloo reminds listeners that they belong to a chain of ancestors and descendants. walaloo jireenyaa

To live without Walaloo , the Oromo would say, is to live in prose—flat, factual, and dead. But to live with Walaloo is to recognize that you are a character in an epic, that your sorrow has a meter, and that your joy has a rhyme. When someone is angry or sad, remember that