by Benard Makaa | Oct 19, 2018 | Books, Culture, What I have learned
I have been postponing posting this for the last six months. I feared how friends and strangers would think of me, would it change the way they look at me? Will it make me more ashamed of my upbringing? Then today I reasoned that there might be other boys and girls...
by Benard Makaa | Oct 19, 2018 | Books, Psychology, What I have learned
Albert Einstein once said, “The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or a hostile universe.” I suspect, he was speaking about our perception and attitude. There were three stone-cutters. Each was chipping away at a large block. A...
by Benard Makaa | Oct 7, 2018 | Culture, Poems
Of their Roses and their colours, Poets may prate, I sing my plain upcountry Ann, In two years, she will be my wife, And become the joy of my life, Blessed Day that I will make her my own. Not a word of her face, her shape, or her eyes, Of flames or boobs shall you...
by Benard Makaa | Oct 2, 2018 | Culture, Philosophy
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” ― Thomas A. Edison On the occasion of October 2, the day we observe United Nations’ (UN) International Day of...
by Benard Makaa | Sep 29, 2018 | Culture, Health, Philosophy
I have had my own struggles on this journey of becoming a vegetarian. I still succumb to some fish here and then and hopefully will completely overcome. I have had the advantage of reading many biographies/autobiographies of people I admire. My observations, many of...
by Benard Makaa | Sep 18, 2018 | Poems, Stories
Up in some lone football field, In a dark lonesome place, Where the crickets out-chirped, As they made their mating calls. There we met honey babe, And sat on a green bench, That swore to bear our weight, As we sipped our Ksh100 orange juice. You, as...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 25, 2018 | Letters, Poems
I am not yet old; O listen to me. Let not your desire, for therapy, override my right. You are exploiting me for likes on Facebook & shares on Instagram? O listen to me and I will show you the light. Congratulations, I am your new baby! I am not yet two,...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 6, 2018 | Poems
Wandering and weak are all my prayers, And fleeting the things I crave, Love only, cleansed from all cares, Shall save me from the grave. Strengthen my love, O Lord, That I may in your love believe, And opening my life to you, May your gift freely...
by Benard Makaa | Jul 5, 2018 | Poems
Often in the night, from this lonesome room, I long to meet you, To pierce the dark, dividing gloom, And join myself to you. Up in the morning, I am out on the road, And I am searching for you, Out on the highways, out on the cold, I keep searching for you....
by Benard Makaa | Jun 13, 2018 | Poems
I knew it was over but still I clung, I didn’t know where else I could go, Do you think you would have helped me? I knew it was over, Though it never really began, But in my heart, it was so real! She spoke to me and said, “You are so boring;...
