October is many things for different people. For me, it is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. It is the Month where we who have suffered the pain of losing a child in pregnancy or infancy raise our voices to bring awareness to the prevalence of this grief as well as and maybe most importantly...
Fragile… Oh no!!….that is not who or how I want to live… Life is not fragile…like a glass trinket to be kept behind a cabinet. Taken out only on occasions special Shown to select few Life is priceless, yes!!! Living out loud… Putting my nose in the flowers… Surprising a bee or two In the...
Hello, My name is Wanjiku and I am a Mother of five. Every time, I introduce myself this way, people gasp. They often repeat, “Five, Five children!” And I answer, “Yes, five children. Two are with the Ancestors and Three are with me” Then almost always, immediately their face drop, confusion crops up and an...
heaviness weighs in all around us the weight of it making shoulders slump feet drag backs bend eyes bleak hands limp hope dimmed where will our help come from? this is not an individual battle it is a collective one the Divine the entire community of creation humanity as a whole will we make it?...
Lent is coming And it finds us: Still in a pandemic With war happening in different parts of the blue planet With famine and disease ravaging some members of our human family Generally exhausted as a human collective In a gentle awareness of these and many other very present and pressing realities, I am inviting...
Creator of the stars and all the starry hosts of heaven Creator of wise ones Creator of astrology Creator of love and light We worship you You who called the wise ones from the East To travel from afar for many days To come and bring gifts To come and ensure that the child and...
She reeled off her feelings In the cruel whirling wind It was so strong to make peelings Of where we hid. Inside sweet’s bearing seeds but we were to pit our wits When deciding our deeds. Her eyes were agonizing in disappointment. Her heart bleeding. The engagement The red love was now bleaching. It aches...
they did not know how to live nobody taught them they were only taught how to die so that is what they taught us how to die i however, want to live so teach me how to live i already know how to die. 25.12.2021 Wanjiku
Love is your name Love is your essence Love is your character Love is who you are And because your ways are higher than our ways And because your thoughts are higher than our thoughts Your expression of love confounds us That you would become one of us Incarnational love Love that came down Love...
Son of Tamar Son of Rahab Son of Ruth Son of Bathsheba Son of Mary Joy unspeakable Joy unfathomable Joy unimaginable Yet Joy experienced Joy that bursts forth Joy that changed the course of history That you God Divine One Would choose a woman Would choose women The forgotten The outcasts The labelled The abused...
