STORIES FROM MY HEART

Intellect? the faculty to reason objectively(oxford) To think, to see ahead, objectively, cleverly Such a little word Yet so ignored,and we think we are...intellectual. Intellect? Is that what will save Kenya from a sunken hole where some of our African Brothers and sisters have sunk into for many years? Afraid to come out even in starlight yet we seem to enjoy, the smooth slide into darkness we left intellect at home to sleep on the queen size oak Lamu bed in the mansion we live in when we are happy Intellect? is that what it's called when i talk about the FTSE as if I was born in the bourse? If I rise above the politics and settle with hoping that politics and economy can be oh so very different? Am I intellectual? Or am i just optimistic? and when I do not know my trivia, but I follow the resilience of the Kenyan markets after poll violence? is that intellect Or I am just being foolish? When I know, what's to buy, and what's to sell Stocks and shares that build the world...

I grew up in the countryside And was raised just like any other child in the village I remember being woken up very early every morning, Even if we had nothing to do Children were not to be lazy So we had to find things to do Run in the dewy grasses; play with any of the farm animals that had now become pets Many times we went to the shamba boys hut He always lit a fire that we would gather around He had the sweetest stories ARNEST was his name…later I learnt in English it pronounced Ernest He was from Uganda He told us stories of the cannibals of Uganda He said never to eat meat in a Ugandan house And he swore he wasn’t one of them For these stories, I would pay be young again.. I have a little girl Nine months and her whole life ahead of her If I lived in a farm now Would I let her go for fireplace stories? In this country at this time I cannot answer that question How about hide and seek, up in the trees, and deep in the Napier grass Together with boys and girls her age I cannot ans...