Essays

Resilience, Just Another Word For Having No Choice | Cycle 2

It's 5:15 am, somewhere deep in Kiambu County. I am in a Super Metro. The mission: get to the hospital by 7 am for a 7:30 am appointment. It's not my first time making this trip. The last 3...

Living 10 Days At A Time

Cycle 1 | Fertile Grounds and Empty Halls For someone with a complicated relationship with routines, this new one has taken over my life like a tsunami. My dad has Gastric Cancer. From the moment we got the diagnosis, I...

The Illusion of Becoming

Over the last couple of years, I have been on a becoming journey. Becoming better, becoming freer, becoming a creator, becoming someone, becoming something. And in all that time, I am still focusing so much on the becoming. What...

Somewhere I Lost Myself

It was a rainy morning. At 7am I went to open the curtains, and he was standing at the porch for his morning cigarette. He quickly picked a clear bottle off the ledge and hid it behind the wall....

For The Eldest Daughter

As a kid, I could have used... a little more love and affection. This was the first answer that came to me as I was doing this archaeology exercise. The speed at which it surfaced made me understand what people...

I Stopped Waiting To Feel Ready

Have you noticed how, in recent times, you are sort of expected to always live life at a complete stage? No one wants to be seen trying or to admit they put in effort to achieve their wins. It’s...

Let The Unlearning Begin

Do you ever look at your life and wonder, ‘What happened to me?’ It’s like somewhere along the way, you sort of gave up on yourself. On your dreams. On the future you once imagined so vividly. All around you,...

Same Spot, Same Outfit, A Decade Apart

I saw this video about a photographer. He took pictures of a street in New York at the same time every day for nearly ten years. He noticed something fascinating, and if I am being honest, a little unsettling....

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