Because happiness is not a state that is easily sustained, it is impermanent, arriving at its own leisure and going just as quickly as water goes through extended fingers or a piece of stretched cloth, we must snatch the moment. Let us live in the instant and give in to glee. Let us make our mouths wide; toss back our heads; slap our knees; stomp rhythms into the ground; rattle our shoulders; kick our legs out; howl to the heights. For who knows what may come.

Photography by Ian N'Kosi Joseph. Words by Kwesi Ako Dash. © 2010