9 Ways to Overcome Pandemic’s Shadowy Grip

9 Ways to Overcome Pandemic’s Shadowy Grip

It feels like day 4,387,749 of the pandemic, and the words “mental health” sound hollow and distant. So many shadows surfacing amid the isolation, loss and distance. So many pieces of ourselves feel fragile and uncertain. “How then shall we live?” Julian of Norwich’s...
Liminal Space: Will You Walk Through the Opened Door?

Liminal Space: Will You Walk Through the Opened Door?

My after-school ritual at all of 11 years old was a kilometer walk up to the petrol station at the junction of Spring Valley Road and Peponi Road in Nairobi where I lived. Peponi means “heaven, paradise; up in the air” in Swahili, the national language of my birth...