The Musings of Kajuzi!

For someone, who works in a women empowerment docket that advocates the unleashing and maximizing of human potential, sometimes i am tempted to think that nature has really short changed us, women. Or so i have been thinking, after one of my women challenged my training and my stand as a Mijikenda role model for young girls! I have been told over and over again that i talk too much! Of course i don't agree...heheheh! Believe me if i could tell you the things that i stop myself from saying, then you would agree that relatively i talk very little. Very very little! That aside. The woman forced me to start thinking. About life. The life of a woman. And the expectations of society. And her dreams. They say, reach for your dreams, go for it. There is nothing you can not do. And they get you all excited. You grow up, go to school, graduate, get a job and a man. You are in your late twenties...the time is ticking and biology waits for no woman. This is your life. You are suppo...

A very early Happy, Birthday shout to me!  I am officially in the late twenties bracket this month, yap late twenties. I know, I know, it feels old, and really grown up. And serious. And it makes my stomach warm and squirmy. And I   don’t know why really, but it scares the hell out of me! And it is on days like today that I really long for my Mum! Because of all things that my mama could do, the best was knowing how to make us feel better. Always! I know today would have been an amazing day, if she were around.   She would have laughed and joked around about how old I am making her look.  Am sure she would have made some impulsive decision to go eat out. Or better yet, she would have asked me to prepare things for her to make me her infamous Biriani,   and we would have had soda! Oh yeah, there had to be plenty of soda. With my Mum, it was never a celebration without soda. Ooh, how I miss that. I am pretty sure she would have dan...