Tasia VanderVegt
Tasia VanderVegt
![Lion licking its fur](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/academics/distinctive-programs/narrative-medicine/issue4/tasia-vandervegt/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.png)
![Cheetah surveying the land](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/academics/distinctive-programs/narrative-medicine/issue4/tasia-vandervegt/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_886486343.transform/m-medium/image.png)
![Baboon drinking water](/content/medicine_vtc_vt_edu/en/academics/distinctive-programs/narrative-medicine/issue4/tasia-vandervegt/_jcr_content/content/adaptiveimage_446729323.transform/m-medium/image.png)
I took these photographs in March 2023 at the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Each photo alludes to how the day’s rain impacted the animal – the lion cleans its damp fur, the baboon catches a drink, the cheetah carefully surveys the foggy land. I was struck by my fortune to witness each exceptional event. Yet, I also realized that to the animals it was just an ordinary day. What a reminder that mundane and extraordinary are adjectives only for our frames of reference.