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Life in the Neighborhood

Before you clicked “read”, you may have expected some story about my personal environment or community. Well, no, I am talking about The Neighborhood Artist residency in Bariga. I was opportune to discover it, thanks to the handsome mop hair who out rightly calls himself an asshole… He wishes. My first invite was for a movie screening- a documentary of

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A Ride Through My Thoughts

Come with me… Into this sequential waves of thoughts, blind lightnings of worry and the winds of fear. Blowing in and out… Reflecting in every way possible. These past few days have been a tough one, almost like me against myself and just longing to find someone, anyone, to be a source of strength. I have seen my mood move

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Data Rights: The New Human Rights

Never have I being so happy to write a post like this. So, I finally watched the movie “The Great Hack 2019” and I’m close to making sense of our current existence – I mean this present and physical time. I am a huge humanist because as the idea of feminism is becoming distorted, the general purpose of that cause

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A Fault In Our Existence Perhaps

If I say, that I’m woman so I feel more intensely. I‘d get questioned about the message of female equality He said he would call before I go to bed He’ll call back when I tried to call He checked me out by noon To clean up, to welcome another guest of his heart Now he wonders why he meets

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The Truth About The Truth

Everyone hates lies but tells a lie. The thing about the truth is its bitter and hard to handle but sets you free. I believe that the hindrance to the concept of truth is fear and judgment. Fear of punishment, fear of rejection and above all, fear of judgment. As kids, it is the fear that limits a child from

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Technolog-kills

Is innovation the death of us? Is knowledge a burden? Yes yes, I think so. I lost my family’s friend to brain tumor at the age of 30 last year. I experience the craziest headache if my phone screen isn’t dimmed to the lowest. My ears tingle the most because excess use of headphones. I fear for my life when

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Time Out

Most creatives have flexible time, some still on the journey of securing career capital but in all, we humans all need Time Out. I guess this is why we have the Sabbath day – for rest. We all need time out from family, friends, social media and social noise. Not insinuating that they are bad for us but intense reflection

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2020 Vision: Reflective

It’s a new year. A new decade. Resolutions rolling out. New year’s blues and above all, the season of “reflection” I don’t plan to make this serious but I feel very serious (focused more like) writing about this. At first, I thought about how much “of a big deal” the new year was till a few minutes to 12 a.m.

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To The Sanest Christmas Ever

Dear Santa, Would we say I was a good girl this year? This is definitely the first of many and my heart is truly full. For the longest of times, the season of Christmas has been a means for me to escape, party and all sorts of hedonism. But this year, this season, has been my calmest. Peaceful. Sanest. It’s

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Random!

This piece is as random as the subject matter suggests. (Well consistency is key! Welcome to another Wednesday!!!!) I originally planned to dish out a bag of words on black psychology but life happened… Life happened that I had a session and got ill before I could voice my delectable poem. Life happened that I’m feeling weak,maybe hungry but just

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