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Monthly Highlights
No One Should Vanish Unremembered
Let’s go where the light does not reach. There’s a forest in Japan that swallows sound. Aokigahara, the suicide forest. So quiet you can hear the trees creaking. Mourning those
Letting Go: The Art of Embracing Change
The water has no mind to retain the image cast upon it. Suffering, according to my understanding, is untranslated desire. Simply put, you wanted something to go left, it went
What Does It Mean To Be Kind Anyway?
Shortlisted For The Wakini Kuria Prize For Children’s Literature in 2021 Mama looked so pretty that day. No one would have suspected that we had slept hungry the previous day.
What God has decreed
I My secret is placed on your cheekand mistakes have blown with the windin this place where we’re in a kissI blow you my love, and when it lands on
Sometimes I Feel I Can’t Manage This Heart
I have met solitude where sun rays kiss the grass. I have sandwiched myself between that rising of the sun and have found myself overshadowed, still, by the dusk. I
Our Brief Heavenly Hour
Featured in Writers Space Africa I am trying to love myself through your eyes because every time you call me sexy, it feels like a lie. This lie does not
Empty land is where we plant seeds
You’re afraid that if you let go of the rope, there will be nothing left to hold on to, and that fall scares you so much, that you let the
Close
You are as close to meAs skin is close to windYou are as softAs a gentleman’s rage.You are the kigosho and praiseThat holiest of escapesThe tick and tock of the
Unraveling the Illusion of ‘Myself’: Zen Principles, ‘The Gateless Gate,’ and the Quest for Authentic Identity
“The menu is not the meal.”― Alan Watts Disclaimer: I speak from my present level of ignorance. The problem of ‘myself’ has long perplexed the minds of deep thinkers, captivating the
