tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87252979911083422322014-03-24T07:48:09.730-07:00InterludeQuiet thoughts on the Border.
Not a new life, just new experiences, sometimes frightening.
Sometimes breathtaking,
But most times, it's heaves of laughter.Cissnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8725297991108342232.post-83472684359624083982014-03-24T07:48:00.000-07:002014-03-24T07:48:09.736-07:00Currently...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7211">This must be good, It’s a while since I danced to my odd music collection that oscillates from Punk to Roots, Pop to Taarab and back to Rock and Neo Soul. I tried farming before but with my brain elsewhere.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7213">Digging all day somehow removes Toxic enzymes from the body, and gets the food digested, and instead of worrying about rent, I sit and do myself a full pedicure.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7230">Now that I am a farmer may I mention the automatic toning that comes with lifting the hoe. Firm underarms, and if that’s all I get from this ill advised venture, it will be worth it.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7228">But having a piece of earth to look after gives me a rush only Scarlet O’Hara can relate to.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7226"><br /></div></div>Cissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8725297991108342232.post-68002240368708680112014-03-24T07:46:00.001-07:002014-03-24T07:47:36.508-07:00Mode de’ ‘emploi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7187">2014 is undeniably the most uncertain year. With as much confidence as a first year high school kid in baggy uniform. And punch me for missing my best friend’s wedding, and he will kill me too.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7197">Donno how I missed it, I had a dress, a gift idea and after Capital Breakfast, Rick Dees and a John Njagi interview on Kameme or Coro fm, can’t remember which, I was quite complacent.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7199">Guess the worst bit has been these niggling terrors that zip zap inside me when I need to do something important. And immediately I can list 10 reasons why I shouldn’t do it, even if it’s maintaining conversation with that smart boy t hat has as many degrees and diplomas as I have college hopped. </div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7201">Even though I should, coz I like geeks anyway. Right, and by talking about this in public of course has me down the scale by four needle points. But oh well, amidst the clatter that defines my mind. I face yet again some of life’s toughest questions. Get a housemate, wear official clothes, go to a salon.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7203">Important things, which I would rather not do. I have done the analysis to conclude this is the full circle and heck so what if I’m not the best Agriculture Feature Writer. And so what if cannot remember which Nickleback’s track sounds like Staind’s and burn my food at least once every week.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7205">Lewis would not forgive me for thinking Five for Fighting and Foo Fighters were the same thing.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7207">And I bet that’s why my legs wouldn’t move. My best friend got a best friend, and listening to rock will never be the same.</div><div class="yiv5389630296MsoNormal" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395670360944_7209"><br /></div></div>Cissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8725297991108342232.post-2909082756916188742014-02-17T05:56:00.004-08:002014-02-17T05:56:55.040-08:00Bosco, Simba, Tusker and other dogs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> 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done<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with the donkeys and goats.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boy, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>forget the boy- I forgot his name- he had a wide unsure grin, not confident like the course voiced boy that usually has 4, 6 dogs in tow. He brought his friend<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to show a puppy to me.</div><div class="MsoNormal">“He is the best <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kushi,</i>he has no fleas.”</div><div class="MsoNormal">‘What is his name,’ I asked.</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Atlas.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A boy with a wide unsure grin - keep off- those are dangerous. They are not naughty.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naughty boys are safer. They will set<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your ends on fire to see if you set off like<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a fire cracker- no not with ill intention; just, raw curiosity.</div><div class="MsoNormal">They former, they do not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>think. If they set you on fire, they run away and hide.</div><div class="MsoNormal">But<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Kiberiye</i>reminded me of Bosco, my black dog. I still wonder if the part about all our desires coming true involves resurrection of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pets.</div></div>Cissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8725297991108342232.post-45803195296227813142014-01-13T01:47:00.001-08:002014-02-17T05:58:54.359-08:00Plans and Schemes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="//img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /><style>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal">Young at Heart- Frank Sinatra is my sound track this month. I should actually craw under a bed and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have a good cry coz I feel some tears that need to come out, but I can’t fit under the bed, they make them differently here, lower.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I instead I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>get facebook to read people’s updates, that makes me laugh- it’s gonna<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be a good day at least that’s how this<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday morning feels like.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I am once again struggling<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with age,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>measuring how much I’ve grown: More responsible: paying rent in time, less bad hair days..Hah</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">No matter, I’ve<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grown in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>other ways. I wore a necklace once or twice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>last year, a ring that got lost and a bracelet that broke on another day. I tried.</div><div class="MsoNormal">But I admit to a little growth, I have had guests over regularly and now I’m open to friends just ‘dropping by’ no need to call ahead.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I also realized a strength inside me I didn’t now of. Thin people of course have horse strength but you’ve got to, what’s the word reservoir restrain reinforce (Kũgucia na mĩĩkwa) to know how to tap it. Mine I found in ugali from the mills. I run on ugali and tea.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The third is some drops of wisdom. They take their time, are inconsistent but when they show up they hit you by surprise. Like this one:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I don’t have to overhaul my life.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Without knowing it, I‘ve been living my life focused on a climax. Thinking of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>maybe living in an elevated position, don’t know<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from whose point of view, just not budgeting for every shilling. I would also travel to see family whenever, never miss a plum season and with the right kind of partner- Tall dark and handsome, a thinker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A major change, maybe live<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>somewhere else like Seychelles or Morocco. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I kicked<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that. From the life<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>choices I’ve made, I know I will always have enough, and as long as we got phones, family won’t mind much if we don’t see each other each year,,,and Mr Tall dark and handsome can go contemplate the world somewhere just not close to where I am.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Guess that means, I am set in my ways, and a better income, a partner or proximity to family doesn’t mean I will stop to enjoy my ugali with tea, or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>less mixed up.</div></div>Cissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8725297991108342232.post-20591934316869410942013-07-19T08:26:00.002-07:002013-07-22T05:06:55.178-07:00Five Kikuyu Stories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ve been keeping myself within controlled environment, under keen observation ever since my housemate described me, my habits and living so clearly it startled me, so I laughed to cover the fear that would have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been easy on my face.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She had just described a mad human being. I’ve been looking at major cause of my routines, could be my fascination with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>animals and books…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I lost my cat, Juju three months ago. She sprinted out of her cage and run while four men in suits and ties ran in all directions to try catch her on a Sunday morning. I sobbed like<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the wailers when I was finally alone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I miss watching Juju and Mooze playing, games they invented and spend all their energy on. I wonder do they miss each other?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mooze is a British Blue according to the book- The Ultimate Encyclopedia of CATS, CAT BREEDS and CAT CARE, which one of the four men in suits gifted me last week. I embraced it like it was Juju come home. A treasure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I remember the first book someone ever gave me- Ng’ano ithano cia Gĩkũyũ(Five Kikuyu Stories) My aunt gave me the year I finished<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nursery school, my uncles would read to me. It was a very funny one.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NqaX2n-CAjg/UelaV4ecL0I/AAAAAAAAAhI/LxPFh6SbwQ8/s1600/love+books.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" iya="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NqaX2n-CAjg/UelaV4ecL0I/AAAAAAAAAhI/LxPFh6SbwQ8/s1600/love+books.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ve received many books along the way</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jua na Upepo</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Florence the Blue Flamingo</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Moses and Mildred</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Chronicler of the Wind</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Song of Ocol/Song of Lawino</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Stranger and Other stories</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My mother has given me a hundred books, and pens and writing pads along the way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Every time someone says to me- I know you’d<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>love this: a website, a book, a mixed CD, a cartoon. I feel grateful to be understood.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I hope that juju is alright, she was a smart one , tough..but not very street smart, so I worry at times, but I feel consoled when I look at Mooze now, he’s obviously lost weight and that tells me, all the fat he was carrying around was not from my great cooking, and my friend assured me that stray animals are better fed from all the left overs in the cities- The book says cats were once wild, and when left alone can revert to their survival skills. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Makes me think of the cat in the cartoon Bolt : )</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(pic : alove4lit.blogspot.com)</div></div>Cissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8725297991108342232.post-8974785939324994152013-07-19T08:20:00.004-07:002013-07-22T05:09:49.858-07:00Being a woman, being a girl,<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The eyes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that look back form<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the mirror ask a familiar<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>question-who are you?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At times<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the answer comes from what I’m currently<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>involved in, and depending on the language of the moment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Currently<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I answer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to Yeyo(mother).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which my friend Karen says that’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a rightful term since “if we had children we<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be mothers, and we are past<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the age anyway aren’t we?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Still dance<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to uncommon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>music, uncommon moves, like the Chinese women dancing the shuffle to country music-My , it was hilarious.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dance in the evenings, when I’m tired, tired. If I had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a pool I would swim.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If I lived<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by the sea I would curve out a canoe, and in the morning, I’d<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>row out to the middle of the ocean, jump out, and swim with urchins,,,among the coral reefs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I now walk home under a starlit sky, sparse, but calming all the same.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some stars are in twos, </span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">some a shade of red,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">twinkling a way whether<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>someone cheers or not, </span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">they give<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I thought, I’ve never watched snow dripping down.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s splendid in Japan I’ve heard.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mountains, sea shores, forests, horses<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and riding a camel on my mind.</span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And I’m an ant,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Continually building mansions on foreign ground</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On walls,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until the rain comes and drowns me for a while.</span></div></div>Cissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8725297991108342232.post-8401417039513417912013-06-07T06:43:00.000-07:002013-06-07T06:58:26.937-07:00The Basics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Back in the 12th Century , I have found my place, raising goats. With a herd of cows, camels,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> running across in skin loin clothing, and this is the entrance into my home, created over a period of , 40, 50 years.</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...well, it's possible :)</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5kwSZwqxB5I/UbHeO1W_LFI/AAAAAAAAAgU/PBN2ptD_E_o/s1600/Photo-0034.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5kwSZwqxB5I/UbHeO1W_LFI/AAAAAAAAAgU/PBN2ptD_E_o/s320/Photo-0034.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Children hang around me, intrigued that I remember their names. Like this bunch that found me hanging out with my new friend Bosco, I asked would they love a picture.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We agreed they would leave after the picture, they are very noisy- and Namayani and Imiran, front row centre and right, respectively, wanted one by themselves. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Namayani is a tomboy if there ever was one. She hit Sumuni, back row right, with a big stone the other day.</span></div><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G8opsS3NTek/UbHeQLOfVBI/AAAAAAAAAgo/NfDQ1ZGZ7Es/s1600/Photo-0054.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G8opsS3NTek/UbHeQLOfVBI/AAAAAAAAAgo/NfDQ1ZGZ7Es/s320/Photo-0054.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He went home limping, wailing, then came back for revenge. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sumuni, I asked his mother, was that his real name? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She says to me in half Maasai half Swahili and gesturing..</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... when he was born, he was so little, fitted in my palm..(shows me), so I call him Sumuni.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After the photo session, the left, cheerfully as they came.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6nx3TGIceik/UbHeP7xefBI/AAAAAAAAAgc/Wu-WC_zeJhs/s1600/Photo-0050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6nx3TGIceik/UbHeP7xefBI/AAAAAAAAAgc/Wu-WC_zeJhs/s320/Photo-0050.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xB6aWw5VJRk/UbHeQDA6J-I/AAAAAAAAAgg/pZ8Qab4qeBw/s1600/Photo-0061.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xB6aWw5VJRk/UbHeQDA6J-I/AAAAAAAAAgg/pZ8Qab4qeBw/s320/Photo-0061.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This is Bosco, he follows me when I go to town sometimes. He sleeps all day, but is very healthy.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and these two at the bottom, they show up at my door in the morning- auntie, give us the big book. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The big book is - <i>Learn from the Great Teacher</i>, Published by Jehovah's Witnesses. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They sit, and I can guess the next request, so I get out plastic glasses(plastic glasses :)) and pour them juice. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P_Oe1-Q3DoE/UbHeQzyYHfI/AAAAAAAAAg0/tvG9ATJBt5k/s1600/Photo-0076.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P_Oe1-Q3DoE/UbHeQzyYHfI/AAAAAAAAAg0/tvG9ATJBt5k/s320/Photo-0076.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">When I was little, my neighbour had- </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">My book of Bible Stories</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;"> in their library, they allowed me to look through it a few times, those were beautiful moments. They are trying to wipe off Pasta they scattered all over the flour. When I served them- she said, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">auntie asanti- </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">their mothers should only know....for three weeks they tried to stop them from coming into my house. Until schools re-opened and the two discovered there was just enough time to drop by and see the big book before their mothers got back from taking their older siblings to school.</span></div></div>Cissnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8725297991108342232.post-75314493869470187882013-05-16T04:00:00.000-07:002013-05-16T04:26:50.818-07:00This is the new year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> 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imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AE_EDL1WZzI/UZS599f7nHI/AAAAAAAAAf0/53-8ReR0J_c/s320/sunrise2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c4_DgiculZ4/UZS6h2i_aCI/AAAAAAAAAf8/Qfmcuh5UBYQ/s1600/sunrise.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c4_DgiculZ4/UZS6h2i_aCI/AAAAAAAAAf8/Qfmcuh5UBYQ/s320/sunrise.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">There is a little frog that begs for me to let him in everytime the clouds hang low</div><div class="MsoNormal">He startled me last night in the latrine.</div><div class="MsoNormal">A dung beetle, has made it’s home at my door step, with her child. I thought I was helping when I helped her (or is he a single father?)<br />out next to the bushes that grow beside the gate, maybe he would find some dung out here,<br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Moments later, as I went to turn in my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>window, I saw her making his way under the gate’s grill, I thought, oh well, I’ll help her back to her hole, but she retracted and gave a frightened sound. My neighbor.<br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need a handbook to crawling insects that form the higher population where I live. Though, I’m not as scared as I thought I would be, perhaps because I have Mooze-my cat- he’s taken to chasing locusts and eating them, he looks much thinner now. He misses the city. I always thought I fed them so well. It was the wasteful nation that gave them a good meal all this time.<br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I get to catch a beautiful sunrise, or a scene so poetic in it’s being, that I wonder.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Do I deserve this?</div><div class="MsoNormal">It’s a priviledge to be doing this in my age, all the things I might never get to do later in life. This is the best time, when I still have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>warm blood coursing through me, and when a fever can be treated by a simple walk to sweat it out.</div></div>Cissnoreply@blogger.com3