Still waters run deep

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is knowing which bridges to cross and which to burn. And sometimes a man meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. If it simply comes all in the beginning it wouldn't be better. Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals;cherish the music that stirs in your heart,the beauty that forms in your mind,the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts,for out of them will grow delightful conditions,all heavenly environment;all of these if you but remain true to them,your world will at last be built. They only fall that strive to move,or lose that care to keep. Weeping may endure for a night,but joy cometh in the morning.

Njogu body lay on a cold cement floor besides many other more gruesome looking bodies. That was all that was in store for him no dignity but that wasn't so surprising considering he never had much use for it even while he trampled doggedly in life. Dignity was a word that he had no use for personally or for others. There lay bodies beside him on top of him stacked haphazardly, with deep cuts congealing with blood, some had various body parts missing though some of those limbs were strewn all over. It seemed a bad road accident had taken place and the casualties kept steadily rising expaining the bodies with huge cuts and missing body parts. The city motuary was where all bodies of any questionable death were brought such as road accidents,murder or any where the cause of death was not known. Njogu had ended up here from Mukuru Kayaba where some criminals had been involved in a shooting with police officers of the dreaded isukuti squad. His body was riddled with suprisingly not bull

Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go of. I have never had clarity what i have always had is trust.

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

Don't seek the traveled path rather choose the less traveled one and leave a trail.

The colored papers and confetti swung in the late afternoon breeze giving off a kaleidoscope of colors as the fading sunlight reflected off them. It was crowded,noisy and not all that clean what with all the animals in their various stalls and large crowds milling around. It seemed to Mo as though the whole town was here at the circus,watching the animals led through various tricks by the handlers who all wore various multicolored costumes. There was a fire eater performing his tricks to the amusement of a small crowd gathered around him, an elephant raising one foot off the ground and bringing it to rest on a water melon without crushing it. A knife thrower was the next act on stage with a scantily dressed female assistant. Up next came a troupe of acrobats who performed some hair raising stunts that had the crowd on the edge of their seats. The maize harvest had been bountiful this year and as this was the main crop grown by the town, various stands were offering maize in the most in