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hey friend, this birthday letter is 6 days late — and it is about gratitude
hello there, if you know me well, you probably know that I, in general, do not care about my birthday; I’m not particularly happy or I’m not especially unhappy on my birthday. It’s, for me, a day like any other even if with having closer friends, it changes a little bit since, well — they wish me […]
How I learnt to not be the kind of boss I detest
circa 2015 (Pulse Ghana office) For as long as I can remember, I have always believed that leaders (especially those in management) are the kind of people who never do the actual work but spend a lot of time telling other people what to do. I was ok with that, but I never wanted to be […]
hey friend, a letter on my birthday
hey friend, i hope this missive finds you well and good inside, or pensive, in recovery, or getting better all the time — i just hope this finds you at all. i believe these are the state we always are in life, we are either pensive, in recovery or both. so i also hope you get something out of […]
Maybe we need to stop praying
…the modern Christian prays too much and acts too little
Touching myself for the first time
…or my first lesson in masturbation and shame. Hands ( International Business Times AU) I was thirteen, I think. And I was in Aflao. I had traveled to spend the holidays with my cousins who moved to Togo to spend time with their father, and after a month there, were making their way back to Ghana. We […]
What Christ should mean this Christmas — a Christmas message
Material gifts are good, but they cannot replace God’s greatest gift to us — salvation in Jesus Christ — which will be with us for eternity. At the holidays, it’s tempting to focus on ourselves, our families, and our to-do lists — and to lose ourselves in the busyness of it all. Yet all this activity can crowd out the very […]
It’s My Birthday — on new experiences, nostalgia, growing old
Right now, it’s 10:19pm and I am still 20 something years old. I am hanging on to these last moments of this age because I still have the opportunity to say I’ll be twenty something some more times. In about three years, well — that is certainly going to change. I am growing old. Birthday Image via Pexel Everybody is, […]
The Great Awakening in living a thoughtful life
Live life bearing in mind that one day you will leave. Leave life knowing that you are off to live. The train of life might move slow; because that is what mostly does. It will pass over rocky hills, bumpy fields and, occasionally, smooth plains. And you might be seated in a cabin with the most […]
Plead. Beg. Threaten.
That thing that men do. M: Can I get some? F: I really don’t want to I am not in the mood but I love you! M: I don’t give a f***! F:Thats rude I was just trying to be polite about it. M: You want me to just take it from you then? F: NO! […]