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Nairobi · East Africa
She dreams of an idyllic home, small and cosy, with a beautiful garden. A bookshelf with stacks of books, old ones with smells of the past, new ones with happy promises. The early morning golden hue washes her garden, as she takes in a new day, happy, while setting foot in her green backyard, her two furry babies at her side. Her family is fast asleep, the house is silent, as she discovers the many wonders of a new day.
In such lazy hours of nothingness, I lie suspended in my imagined time zone, I become her. Do you too?
And I realise yet again. There are but two worlds. One we inhabit. The other we imagine.
There’s something peculiarly honest about the stroke of midnight. The world’s pretences have gone to bed. The masks we wear…
I remember telling our guide more than once, “Hey, stay with us please”. Because what they don’t tell you about…
My handwriting was rather good during school days or so I was told then. I mean few teachers and friends…
The storm last night was its worst this season. Kalboishakhi has been shifting ahead a few years now around their small village…