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08Jun

A Thousand and One Incisions

I would get woken up and, looking at the staircase, would see my father with his left hand resting on the rail, his right hand holding his chin with his eyes looking at me from the distance. His look was intense as if saying “come child”. A few times I had woken up those sleeping next to me, pointing at the staircase and shouting “Daddy is here”, but like those with Paul on the road to Damascus, they saw nothing and cautioned me to stop disrupting their sleep.
5 mins read
15May

Lying At Bethesda

Relax, thou created by the most high. If you are deserving of the Lord's mercy, at his time, he will find you out and bestow it on you. It is not in what you do or don't do but it is as God wills. Remember, he makes all things beautiful in his time.
4 mins read
08May

Not Pretty but good enough

At break time, a pupil went around ringing the brass bell, something that we really looked forward to with excitement. Our excitement was not for the bell but what comes after it, the arrival of the ‘Iya Olounje’. Smartly dressed in deep blue gowns, they come into the different classrooms and set down their food trays right next to the blackboard. As she opens the food, the scintillating aroma fills the classroom and not a few of us would start salivating. Our food containers which we had deposited at the start of the day would be taken by the woman and filled with whatever food was for the day
7 mins read
04Mar

Could God have given us brains but not want us to use them?

Luke 17:20 And being asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God cometh, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
6 mins read
22Feb

Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude is a German word, made popular by the South African stand-up comedian Trevor Noah.
4 mins read
18Dec

Bali, City of the gods

Bali offers us a lesson in treasuring our way of life - only those that have been brainwashed will see their culture backward or repulsive.
9 mins read
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