The Musings of Kajuzi!

Three years ago today, a colleague of mine pulled the Mrs. so and so card on me and it took a while to register that she was actually referring to me. So i politely batted my eye lids and asked her if she could refer to me with my REAL names please! heheh! To be honest, I forget am a wife sometimes! It took me exactly five years and maybe some days to move from stranger- to friend- to girlfriend- to fiance-and eventually wife. I sometimes wake up and stand in front of the mirror to look for changes that scream wife and so far except for the eruption of some chunky bits almost everywhere imaginable and the ring on my finger... I have not seen any, nor have i produced a following to prove that i am. I feel like it was just the other day this guy was darting lines my way that were just so hilariously lame that i actually fell for him. Just the other day.., and now here we are. Turns out i am Wife Material after all. And,  it isn't running to the kitchen once th

When i left my well paying job early last year, i was so excited about walking this self-employed, founder and director journey. I mean, i had just won the US Embassy pay it forward challenge, i had been selected as the Africa Matters Ambassador, i had been accepted into the YALI Regional Leadership Center and i had just gotten an opportunity to work with the Global Peace Foundation. Things were great, and were looking even greater. I was on a roller coaster. Fast forward to September, the dreamy phase was over, and most of my engagements were winding down. The little funding we was dwindling down and the real work was just beginning. In addition, i found myself living in my baby sisters house as i struggled to get the organization activities in Kilifi running. I transitioned from an extra busy-body who was hoping from counties to countries, to someone who spent the days and nights slumped over a computer trying to make sense of everything. I stopped going to places and me

2018 was a strangely tough and wonderful year for me. For the most part it was my year of liberation, the year i found freedom, the year i found myself and the year i truly searched and thankfully found God. For someone who has always had a responsibility on my shoulder (black tax is real my friends), who has always been held down and back by one reason or the other, whether real or imagined, 2018 was the year when for the first time i found myself with no responsibilities and no obligations but my own. It was a strange and scary place to find myself and for the most part, I did not handle it so well. I mean i went and left my job, left a town i had grown to love, left friends i had gotten attached to and also left a career i had taken 5 years to build and excel at! It was the year i started an organization, built an amazing team, revived a past business, did my first consultancy gig, made some great partnerships and friendships, learnt new things, took great risks and got great