Category: Seasons
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Wrapping Up
I don’t know about you, but my year ended in October (LOL). Since the day of my birth, the 10th day of October, I have been wrapping up my 2023. Looking back and being grateful. Looking ahead and seeking counsel, planning and keeping an open heart. Two years ago, I stopped making new year resolutions.…
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Farewell Sweetheart
It’s a paradox how something so sweet could cause me too much pain! Piercing pain! Numbing pain! Call it the most agonizing pain; when you’ve felt too much pain than you can endure! When you’ve felt excruciating pain that it’s surprising you’re still breathing! In the wee hours, surrounded by the softest whispers of breaths…
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A Time to Part
Do you ever feel like you could have given more? Do you ever feel like you didn’t give your very best? That’s how I am feeling right now. Four of the little army of our holiday makers have gone back to their home. The other three are leaving tonight. I feel a bit numb. It’s…
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A Family Separated
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of lifeProverbs 4:23 NKJV From the very start, I knew the fate of Meow’s baby meows. Long before before they were born, it was decided that they were to be given away and Meow was to stay. Thus I purposed to guard…
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Something I Miss
I miss how our entire family used to gather around the television to watch songs in languages we didn’t understand. Our dad’s music became our music for he was the DJ. Ever returning home with video tapes of his favorite songs. We watched alot of Lingala music, Oliver N’goma, Brenda Fassie, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and…
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A Season of Sweaters
The home I have grown up in has had different seasons. Each season is dictated by where our dad is working at the moment. We had a season of yorghut, where yorghut became as common as drinking water in our fridge! Our kitchen became flooded with empty yogurt jerricans of both 1 and 3 litres.…