Today, at midnight sharp EST, Taylor Swift released her 10th studio album titled Midnights. It is a collection of 13 (duh!) songs written in the middle of the night, a journey through terrors and sweet dreams. To know me, whether intimately or from social media, is to know that I am definitely maybe the biggest … Continue reading Happy Midnights Day
Category: Et Cetera
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Book 38/30. My rating: 3 of 5 stars I hadn’t read a Pulitzer Prize winning novel in a couple of years and this served as a reminder of why I tend to stay away from them as I really don’t understand why the prose of Pulitzer Prize winning novels has to be so… unfriendly. My … Continue reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy
33 Facts About Me
According to my content calendar, ‘Who I Am’ is meant to be the title of today’s blog post, but the truth is I am sooo tired of writing. So in lieu of that, but still keeping with the theme of what today’s post was supposed to be about, I am sharing 33 (because I am … Continue reading 33 Facts About Me
Guest Post – Kirigo Jay
The sun sets on Kisumu It’s a colourful evening with the sun rays creating a beautiful painting over the horizon. You look back at the time spent in the place where your voice was found again, exclaiming you realize what a time you had in the sunny parts of Kenya. Living in as many counties … Continue reading Guest Post – Kirigo Jay
Healing. Mindfulness. Discipline
In my Karibu 2021 post I mentioned that one of the things I decided to try out in 2021 is a Word of the Year and after much deliberation I settled on Discipline as my WotY. In my letter to my mum on the third anniversary of her death, I said that 2020 was a … Continue reading Healing. Mindfulness. Discipline
You Cannot Pour From An Empty Cup Part Two: Systems
New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is not an outcome, it is a process. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better rituals, not chasing better results.James Clear Last week I put up You Cannot Pour From An Empty Cup Part One: Misery that focused … Continue reading You Cannot Pour From An Empty Cup Part Two: Systems
You Cannot Pour From An Empty Cup Part One: Misery
In my letter to my mum on the third anniversary of her death, I said that 2020 was a really muted year for me and I am hoping for better and MORE in 2021. Call me naïve but I was sooo damn sure that since I wanted it so badly, the better and MORE I … Continue reading You Cannot Pour From An Empty Cup Part One: Misery
Karibu 2021
Let’s try this again, shall we? I’m baaaaaaaaaack!!! Or, to borrow from Emimen: Guess who’s backBack againShady’s backTell a friendGuess who’s back, guess who’s backGuess who’s back, guess who’s backGuess who’s back, guess who’s backGuess who’s back It is only the first day of March but whew chilllleee I feel like I have already lived … Continue reading Karibu 2021
See You When I See You
I’m baaaaaaaaaack!!! Or, to borrow from Emimen: Guess who's backBack againShady's backTell a friendGuess who's back, guess who's backGuess who's back, guess who's backGuess who's back, guess who's backGuess who's back That was supposed to be the opening paragraph for today’s Karibu 2021 post, but fucking hell January was ROUGH!!! It started off soooo beautifully … Continue reading See You When I See You
The Month of Lymurit: Finally in New York
I am standing in the shower brushing my teeth as one does. I think about what I am doing; My hair wrapped in a kitambaa, my head tilted backwards with my mouth open and my tongue out as the water hits my face and the insides of my mouth. I smile. Brushing my teeth has … Continue reading The Month of Lymurit: Finally in New York