No thanks, I love tattoos but only on other people.
On how and where other people choose to wear them and that’s it.
Have I told you about the time I walked out after getting my first ear piercing?
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- Writing
- Shopping for stationery in Miniso.
- Highlighting text
- Reading
- Listening to music
- Cooking
- Making coffee
- Drinking coffee
- Procrastinating
I’ll list the others tomorrow, maybe…what I do know is that it’s just bliss.
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I cut up two limes into quarters and placed them in each room yesterday.
Is that a sign or not?
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Not all things require my attention.
Sometimes, fussing or stressing over things leaves me exhausted to the point that I fail to identify or see what truly needs to be done, and in the end of it all it creates that mountain when I barely had a mole hill.
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A little bit of this and that is what comes to mind.
Each day brings its own stories and experiences, each moment an opportunity for me to decide how to react.
And just like that, for over thirty five years, from climbing mango trees when I was five, to making my first meal, getting the ingredients right for that sponge cake, traveling outside Kenya, or that time I had food poisoning while traveling home- a six hour drive that nearly killed me, or getting on that motorbike, losing my friends, grief, love, shopping….graduating from university.
It’s like I have a little garden of wins and misses in my pocket.
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Listen, if I tell you of the time I wanted to change my seats and embrace the theme of blending african print with pain black cloth-you’ll call me crazy, and you would be right.
I blame it all on Pinterest.
I saw these awesome designs and thought I could do it, until I bought the fabric-cut it into strips and they were the wrong fit. Then I got the black cloth, only to take the pieces to a tailor and she says that the two fabric do not blend well- texture and quality wise, making stitching a nightmare.
She proceeded to give me an unwarranted lecture on how clients think they know stuff instead of asking to make sure they are right and end up wasting money, time and fabric.
I took my african print, made cushion cases and bought a bottle of fanta to wash down the bile of irritation that was rising up my throat!
Never ever, have I gone back to Pinterest for DIY projects.
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The things you are stressing about, will pass.
Each day comes with it’s own buffet-the things that stress you now, may not appear on the menu tomorrow.
Focus on your studies-good grades are great, but kindness- a good character, now those two will not fail you.
Yes, you’ll not wear that navy blue skirt anymore once you graduate.
Love your friends, some of them will break your heart and you’ll grieve them when they die, especially the one whose laughter makes your day. She will die before you.
Listen to your Mother, love her, she’ll push her dreams aside to watch you thrive.
Love your Sister, now that one will burn the world to see you soar…and she’ll give birth to a son, name her after your Father, and your heart will be his, forever living for him.
Write those stories, you’ll publish books one day.
Forgive yourself.
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What books do you want to read?
Oh to ask the heavens for rain, when you could get thunder, lightning, showers, a torrent, a downpour, the rainbow…they clear blue sky, the dark heavy clouds…
And since you asked this of me, listen, I want to read books:
- with bright colorful covers
- written by Kenyan Writers
- written by women
- in hardcover
- written by me
- with a playlist the author was listening to while writing
- by Asian writers
- anime/manga
- by Jennifer Makumbi
- BL themed books
- in public library
- gifted by friends and family
- that I swore I would never read (if you mention Anna Karenina I will punch you in my head while smiling, and don’t get me started on the level of heartbreak I endured reading Wuthering Heights)
- Harry Potter series (again!)
- by Chinua Achebe (my absolute favorite: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God)
- books on my shelves
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I was just passing by, minding my own business, scrolling
Liking, sharing to my story, laughing out loud but never commenting.
No, there is something about reels, that doesn’t require your opinion but captures your attention
And I for one get lost in those cat videos,
But that was until this…until I found myself looking for radiance,
I stumbled upon this and suddenly my opinion wasn’t mine alone,
It had to be shared, posted, bared, revealed, told, typed…whatever
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If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
- War: The need for military
- Democracy: the aspect of having to vote for one side/team into governance…counting of ballots and the whole electoral process because in Kenya, clearly it hasn’t done much.
- Zoom: This is my way of saying that spending hours over a call via screen is not my forte…and to have done this over two years-at some point the frustration grew into loathe.
- Carbon credit: Because it is clearly another form of possession of indigenous communities and habitats.
- Banking system
- Geographical boundaries: I still don’t understand why those who came before me had to chart boundaries and say this is our country, no one is allowed to come and go as they please and they have to pay us to get in and tell us when they get in and get out.
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