My child has an infection.Its minor, however she needed mediation so I got her some.They don’t taste so well because it’s medicine.This morning am giving her a dose and she is whispering something.”I am brave, I am brave”. I am marvelling at the way she is calm saying it and takes the medicine without cringing.InContinue reading “From the mouth of babes”
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DIARY OF MY TODAY
I am looking into the eyes of a child.Let me start from the beginning,I am sitting somewhere and across from me is a baby and her mom.She is about a year old and is being a baby,wants to play,wants to be held and is even trying to eat everything she touches.She keeps smiling at meContinue reading “DIARY OF MY TODAY”
Mental Health Day
We speak different languages, communicate in really unique ways and express our needs in differently.More often that not we misundertand each other because we expect people to communicate the way that we do.For example I write,it’s the way that I express the things that I can’t say.I am also an extrovert so I’ll tell youContinue reading “Mental Health Day”
Mental Health
I attended a mental wellness campaign.I sat among people that have dedicated their lives to helping others navigate the scares of life.I was in the presence of champions that have dared to break barriers.The energy in that space was giving calmness and even when it was buzzing with activities there was so much calm.I haveContinue reading “Mental Health”
Parenting Chronicles
I was in Church today,the programmer asked for a child who would volunteer to pray before they went for their own service.Four of them came and because the altar call had been made they all got to pray. Each one of them said their name,the grade they are in at school then started to pray.TheContinue reading “Parenting Chronicles”
Diary of my Today
Today I am feeling cold,like an abnormal kind of cold.I woke up this way and there is not a thing I haven’t tried in the last few hours.I dressed in everything warm and as I walked this morning I could see people staring.It wasn’t cold as such but I am cold.So I got to workContinue reading “Diary of my Today”
Life is a painful journey
I am having a bad day,I woke up this morning and I don’t remember having breakfast.I had lunch but I still feel a certain way.My best friend is attending a funeral,she wouldn’t want me to say it like that but I don’t know how to say it.I feel like a terrible friend,I have failed myContinue reading “Life is a painful journey”
The Color of Raindrops
The sound of the rain as it hits the roofThe noise it makes at hits the groundThe loss if dust as it gets swallowedThe look of mud as it forms slowlyThe stickiness happening quickly The sound of the rain as it hits the skinThe nature of it as it turns you cold The fear ofContinue reading “The Color of Raindrops”
Traumas
You know those adult people y’all keep saying were raised well okay they are heartbroken,most of them.Young people are hurting from childhood traumas,older people are hurting from disappointments.So we hide behind memes, money and trolling others.. Ladies are out here breaking hearts because some dude from their past broke their hearts. Men are out hereContinue reading “Traumas”
Grace
Many months ago my prayer list was full of so many things.I prayed for rest, peace,love and at some point I even prayed that the future would be better.Yesterday as I was going to pray I realized that I had no list.All I wanted to say was thank you.They say that good things come toContinue reading “Grace”
Chiry Writes 