We can be more, Eric insisted. We can be greater. We can be larger.
Listening to Eric Wainaina
on fire
I hope that the names of all who have suffered will be held as sacred, each name a prayer, each name a song, each name a poem.
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 33
One is undone by everyone else’s undoing, and waits for the final undoing.
Year Five
We hold each other in our undoing.
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 31
How had I skipped Note 31?
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 32
Echoes. Vibrations. Ghosts. Violation. Memory.
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 30
I think to say, but do not —Ordinary Notes A return to an earlier writing, where I first thought, which is to say wrote, about form and meaning: What needs to be said is urgentOne cannot be careless with form.—"Miri ya Mikongoe" I had been paused by Christina's note, paused by the difficulty of what... Continue Reading →
interruption
As Kenya enters week many of what the mainstream press and security companies are calling anti-government protests—why not pro-freedom protests? or pro-constitution protests?—time has fractured. The protests are held on Tuesday and Thursday and, so far, schools and businesses have responded by closing on those days. Time has been interrupted. Schedules have been changed. Those... Continue Reading →
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 29
I am never quite sure what will arrest me, and now I try to pay attention to what stops me.
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 28
We are invited to be modern viewers of the past.
Gukira 