This year has been a year of venturing into the unknown, learning more of who I am and my caring habits, taking multiple leaps of faith, exercising trust in my journey and witnessing the same in my friends and family. This is a special post where I want to express some of my most precious…
My body communicates with me in subtleties. It starts with a small pounding, above the right eye. Or heavy breaths after a few steps. Or a slight faintness in the still images ahead of me. Despite growing signs of distress, I continue pursuing and enduring whatever it is that I am currently engaged in. I push…
I loved watching her smile whenever she faced the mirror. Whether she had chocolate stains or spinach leaves from nkontomire stew stuck between her teeth, she found happiness in that moment of seeing herself. I loved the way she flung her hair like she were in a magazine, swaying her locks like the blonde and brunette models…
I went about learning to love myself in reverse. I believed this love would find me in the eyes of others, that their love would be a source of sustenance. This very belief led to years of forging and wrestling into identities foisted on me. An uncomfortable fit but I remained clumsily dressed, desperately killing…
There is a force. You cannot see it, at first, but you can feel it. It surrounds you, clogs up the air, chokes up your insides and, before long, you realise you cannot breathe. You stand in it. You suffer in it. Break in it. Shake, cry and wriggle in it. Then, consequently, the futile…
On a cold winter’s night, I heard the crackling of the fire stove calling me back home. But home was now far behind so I continued to trudge through the snow. I remained wandering, the destination unknown. My toes were frozen over in their woolly boots and, snuggled in knitted mittens, my fingers were rock…