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Hey Guys, I’m back with another lesson from this year. Just before last year came to an end, I remember … More

Gentle, Healing, Kenyan Bloggers, Kenyan writer, self love

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Growing up is continuous and so there is always more to be, to want to be and it never has to be one thing . • • A post went up late last week and the direct link is in my bio 😊 • • 📸: @mordechai_nuni

I’ve been feeling so much joy and contentment lately ☺️ you know that quote about documenting the moments you feel most alive? What you were wearing, who you were with and how you feel? I have so many of these from this past half of the year and I’m so glad for all these eyes closed, leaning forward & completely immersed in joy moments inmortalised in pictures like these 😊 • • “There is a romance brewing here between joy and I, I deserve her and she deserves me.” - @beingupile

“You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive”. • • Poetry taught me that I was never the only one feeling what I did. I remember when I was much younger and began to write, I’d read cards- birthday, anniversary, condolence, congratulations. It was absolutely fascinating that such few words could be so relatable and thoughtful. So I started to make cards for my family and that was the beginning of learning to express myself in ways other people could resonate with. • • Over the time my love for reading everything, literally everything (@mykenyanpuff can attest to my slightly unhealthy obsession with googling everything & have lists on lists of things I want to read up on). This reading definitely grows my writing itch and so I hope you remember you aren’t alone. When you forget, I hope you find some words to remind, maybe these ones 😊

“Today and all days I am thankful for all the womxn of color who love/ write/ emote from the root and never apologize for their wrong.” - @beingupile • • I couldn’t resonate any deeper with a statement. My time away from the blog has been full of so much inspiration and creativity from all the beautiful work I’ve discovered and continue to discover on this platform. • • A post went up earlier this week on the revamped website, link in my bio. #bloomingbutterfly

“But one day, in the silence that follows nostalgic stories and subsequent laughter, you may realise that you never did more living or growing than when you had certain people by your side. And suddenly, you’re home.” • • Missing siz incredibly (and all the amazing candids she takes of me- like this of me nose deep in a cup of herbal tea that I can still smell now) ☺️

“...And since writing is an author’s deepest self, writing about one’s ‘I’, standing up for it, can feel like an aggressive act.” • • “Sometimes on my walk home, in the short space between the rest of the world and my front door, sometimes I will have a moment to dream and to reflect, and to speculate on what the essays will look like, read like.” • • I write a lot in my head, it’s a bad habit, I think. Might even be a lazy one and often, just before I get to the front door after a (long) day I stand there and breathe a little. Sometimes I’m lucky and I catch the sunset or a new anthurium sprouting in one of the pots by the door. Most days, it’s late and I’m lucky enough to have a cloudless night to marvel at the stars and write something in my head about my day. Perhaps a personal stream of consciousness in my head, not in writing: “a private library of a life lived”.

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