Africa is my source for lessons in simplicity. This photo reminds me of one of those lessons. I’m leading a tour in Uganda and the group is excited by a brochure at our bed and breakfast in Jinja. The advertisement says this town is famous for the ‘Source of the Nile ‘. Our  hour long drive to see the tourist attraction winds through lush tea and coffee plantations, finally turning onto a dirt road that ends atop a grassy knoll. “Where are we?” I ask the driver guide. “At the source of the Nile,” he replies. I look around for sign boards, other tourists, a path leading to the river. But there is nothing. Then out of the bushes the boy in this photograph appears holding a stick with an attached poster board with large letters that say, “The Source of the Nile”. He jams the stick into the dirt and motions for us to form a semi circle around him and his prop. After a couple of minutes of historical fact telling he apologizes for not having any cokes for us to drink.”When my family gets money we will be serving cold cokes,” he tells us, “and building a proper cement parking lot, and platforms for viewing so more tourists will come see the source.”  When he points to the ripple in the river I imagine John Speke discovering this source back then almost exactly like it remains today. As we drive away the boy yanks his stick out of the ground and disappears into the bushes and I secretly hope his family will never get the money to ‘develop’ this significantly simple spot.