BLOSSOM GRAM

Dear Reader, The scripture reads,  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and My ways are not your ways…”. You can refer to Isaiah 55:8-9 for context but I think it's God saying that his mind is not the same as ours. But we are made in his image so to some degree we may relate intellectually. Conflicting argument but it is beside the point. The Human Mind is the point or rather the basis for all this. Some scholars defined the mind as, “the part of a person that feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons” and I think they forgot the part about how our minds protect us. It is fascinating to me how it works. It has a life of its own. It chooses to play tricks on us, it chooses to forget and also forgets what it has forgotten and that is funny but that does not even scratch the surface of what the mind is. So, the mind protects. And we might question how it does this and it’s pretty simple. It cares for us. It is us, so it protects but sometimes its mode of protect...

  Hey Njeri, MaryAnne Njeri of house Ngure, Mother of six daughters and a son, Grandmother to yours truly and others, Protector of our hearts and peace, and a lady who could not hide fault but grill you for it. You will always remain in my heart and I will always Love You!   Njeri… You would probably smack me if I called you that. I miss you! It has taken me a while to finally write this but here I am, seated and getting some evening sun as I listen to Emile Mosseri. You probably don’t even know who Emile is but if there’s Spotify in heaven I’ll play you some of his best works. I’ve been sad, or rather broken but I had a project that made me forget for a while. I cleared it successfully and I found that the emotions had already settled and they offered me coffee as we discussed why I have ignored them. The sun shone that day when I received the news. The world did not stop to acknowledge that a saint had left our midst. The birds still chirped and I still had to go toi...