Putting in the woman hours!

“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.”
― Barbara Johnson

Wow, thirteen years ago today she came into the world, my angel.   I never really knew then how profoundly she would change my life, my world and all my perspectives of every value and belief that I had.  Now I try to hold on to every single moment that I can, I feel that she is slipping through my fingers each and every day, more rapidly than the day before.  She said to me at breakfast today “mummy, you have been in my life since I was born” and I have, from birth to 13 and beyond.  I am in awe of this wondrous creature that I call my Angel, how she has grown and changed and the spectrum of emotions she can invoke in me. Am not sure there is another person alive who can take me from delight to despair and back to delight again with the span of seconds. Continue reading

Connect A-head!

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

One recent evening, I sat at a table at the Tamarind restaurant, overlooking the beautiful creek that surrounds, Mombasa Island.  At night the sight is magical. The entire island comes to life with twinkling lights.   The creek is as calm as a sheet.  If one did not know better they may think the water is a frozen sheet of ice, however we are in Mombasa, in Kenya, the equator etc, so frozen water? Not at all likely, it was very still though, like glass, a mirror for the glistening island of Mombasa, breathtaking! Continue reading