Laundry.
I am creating a mountain of dirty clothes in the other room, waiting to see what it’d be like when I run out of clothes to wear and when the weather is fine…I am good at putting it off truly.
Category: Insight
-
http://www.pexels.com -
Daily writing promptIf you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?
And we are back with an answer to the ‘If’ question again.
It would be such a relief to invest in Africa, to make it easier for many to stay and thrive here- not just creation of jobs, improved healthcare, uphaul the education curriculum, make this a place where no one would look down on you or send you packing, because of the color of your skin.
http://www.pexels.com -
You asked about a star, yet I heard a galaxy. I could not tell myself a lie, because it’s taken me years to get this far, my absolute favorite and very necessary thing to do is:
sleep
Then right next to it, I love to do the following:
write
read (currently loving Home coming by Luan Goldie)
listen to music
clean the house
http://www.pexels.com -
For the love of body art, I’d love to know a thing or two about henna and draw some beautiful flower designs on my hand.
http://www.pexels.com -
I love sunshine and smiles and just like that I find joy in:
- Committing to something; from planning to actually doing it and then taking in the results of it.
- Making decisions- like taking that afternoon nap because I am exhausted, and my body is asking for rest.
- Buying myself coffee and cake
- Waking up to committing to meeting a dream, and going to bed knowing what more I have to do to achieve it.
- Listening to my favorite songs
- Earning, and being able to pay bills including that monthly Netflix bill that secures my access to KDrama series which by now I can attest that I can comprehend basic phrases in Korean.
http://www.pexels.com -
Daily writing promptWhat aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?
I am a daughter of the Lake.
History says that my tribe, the Luo, who speak Dholuo, are River-Lake Nilotes and as such we are drawn to, revere, and reside along Nam Lolwe or Lake Victoria as the world knows it.
I love the flow and depth of Dholuo as a language, because there are many names of the same thing-for example a cat is not just a cat, it is: mbura, paka, ong’er mesa, pusi…
I love the way we revere nature and seasons, and for every birth our children are named in honor of the time and season they come into the world.
Don’t get me started on the food-especially the vegetables and how we make them…
http://www.pexels.com -
It is beautiful how we live in a world of superlatives. You are good, but you can be better, or if you think you can do better, how about your best…and then who is the best, who is most successful among your group of friends.
What could you do more of?
Well, I could do less of:
- Talking down on myself or beating up myself for not getting things right.
- Tiktok videos
- Scrolling Instagram reels
- Watching news and taking everything at face value
- Wishing I had a toned body
- Denying myself vacations because of fear of spending money I could be saving.
- Buying more brass earrings and kiondos- I now have a collection.
http://www.pexels.com -
Live your life.
No matter how hard it gets, just live. And just like that, I remember those three words “live your life,” because they were uttered to me at a time when I even the act of breathing in felt like drowning-and it hit me how sometimes what’s deemed as the best advice, could also be the worst or least impactful.
http://www.pexels.com -
“Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.”- Bill Richardson
I am in constant awe of the systems and institutions that we create as humans, and would like to know among many things:
- why do we need democracy?- what do you do when the person you wish to rule you fails, why must you put up with someone you did not vote for-and vice versa
- borders, visas- a similar species has to pay for a stamp and document that grants passage into a mass of land you marked yours.
- Taxes
- Security detail for one person propped as a leader…I know my sister is rolling her eyes at this, she understands diplomacy and legal terms better than I do.
- Why we ask single people why they are single but not as much as we ask married people why they are married.
- Why sleep is awesome when it’s raining outside
- Music, who created this magic?
- Books, oh what would the world be without books, stories in print, handsome men on paper but not in real life!
http://www.pexels.com -
Once I thought how alike the 12th Zodiac sign- Pisces and the Ouroboros are, an endless cycle of creation and destruction, never disappearing but always changing form.
And just like that I know I would feel empty without music. For music has been my companion when I walk- to shut out the world, the tsk tsk from strangers when I walk, the reminder to walk in step to a beat, a friend to fill the silence of awkwardness at parties, peace when my mind is chaotic.
Bryan Catota: http://www.pexels.com
nilichoandika 