Friday night was meant to be a three hour rendezvous *don’t Google
as yet→→ meet, come together,
Ok to be honest,
was more like
There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
Many of us who grew up in
pre-independence Kenya *Ahem* will agree that life then was not a bed of roses. Growing
up in the village was nothing short of baptismal by fire and this in a way
prepared us for the roles we were to undertake in the young independent Kenya.
Personally, the clean up ceremony every Sunday remains the most traumatic event
in those days. From my #PenToPaper archives, I’ve fished out a piece that captures
the ritual which my mother executed with zeal. Intertwined with the torture and
roughness was the greatest love as only a mother can give. I’ve no doubt my
fellow village alumni will identify. May the Good Lord Rest His Soul in Eternal
Peace...
Shame on you if you’ve never taken a minute or two to thank your deity for the invention of the blogosphere.