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...
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...
I looked into my mothers eyes in passing, Then I took a second look, My grandmother was looking at me through those eyes, She was smiling, I smiled back, Precious eyes, Windows for my ancestors.
I have a 6 year old son. My only living son Thayu is 6 today. His name means peace and life. Every time I look at this child, I never cease to be in wonder. He should not be here but he is. When he arrived he had one foot on the blue planet and...
Hello there My name is grief I am here for a while Actually for a long while I will be taking different forms on our journey together Please don’t fight me Sit with me I am your friend I am here for the journey.
“… Death reveals the utter vanity of all our misplaced worship and all our feebly invested hopes …” (Douglas Kaine McKelvey – Every Moment Holy II: Volume II: Death, Grief, and Hope) What is death If not a a doorway to the afterlife To that life we long for yet are hesitant to enter into...
On 31st August 2021, at 9:30pm, Rev. Dr. James Kiarie Kuria breathed his last this side of eternity. James was the husband of Rev. Margaret Wangari, the father of Cate, Wanjiku, Nungari and Ngoiri. He was the father in-law of Dr. Steve Ndegwa. James was the beloved grandfather of Hadassah, Wendo, Thayu, Utugi, Hinya, Wega,...
Dear God, regarding these precious ones, these that are yours and mine at the same time, it is for these precious ones i pray today. I ask that you not allow them to spend the rest of their lives: healing from, navigating around, dealing with, recovering from, their childhood. i am pleading with you, i...
One year ago, me and mine lives took a turn It was a huge turn It was an unexpected turn In the days that followed my physical body bore the blunt of it My body was disintegrating before my eyes When my body dragged itself up My mind took over the spiraling
I have been learning how to breath. I can hear some chuckling, that was me a few months ago as well. “But I have been breathing since I was born,” I said when I heard about breathing classes. Air. The very breath that we breath. Yet, not so many of us ever stop to consciously...