I thank you Dada Efú Nyaki Thank you for your life and mission Thank you for your love and witness Thank you for your warm and global embrace To have sat and learned at your feet was privilege To have served you was one of my life’s greatest honor To have basked in the rays...
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...
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...
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...
it is not that i don’t want to live, i do, it is that i no longer know how to it is not that i don’t love life, i do, it is that i no longer feel its love it is not that i am weak, i am not, it is that i am exhausted...
more grease to you elbows more strength to your knees more clarity to your mind more wisdom to your ears more vision to your eyes more grace to your tongue more firmness to your back Aṣẹ
