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The struggle with many a rigid Logooli cultural practices

  The Logooli community is one of the deeply cultured societies – with near everything supposed to have been done as per custom – to allow another custom to follow. One example is that for a mature man (with a child or more) to be buried, there must be a house structure at home. Another is that a boy must be circumcised and nursed in father land. If maternal family decides to, the boy will have a hard time reconnecting with father people - a dent on his masculinity. There were two children who got burnt to death in a house in Nairobi. The single mother had left for night work. Elders were told that one of the children was Logooli. The other, the woman had sired with someone else. The Logooli family wanted to burry their little one and long discussed the do’s and don’ts. Of a man who died childless and the grave was placed as if he had died as a man with children. It should have been dug on the sides, the grave. A real thorn should have been thrust in his buttocks, his name go...

MOON; 28-08-2015

As seen from Nairobi 2100hrs
The moon was not visible in the sky till the sun was at its horizon. It was not the size it is now. It adds unto itself some size. The fact that it grows in the sky as it shines below makes it add onto another day's shape. The moon now pretends to be circular- full moon. If you keenly looked at the lower curve it does not fully complement the upper half.

Some things bring you closer to God. Imagine thinking of death in sickness. Bet me I can't give in to death. And that makes God a tyrant incase he is. Looking at the moon I wondered whether I should insult it as a way of implore its help. But the fact that it is a thing makes it innocently illusioned. I'll get well soon. But I know that I am not that strong.

The good thing with today's moon is that I am not lonely and got the camera - Mom Mary told me to visit her place. I am freely enjoying the services of a Wi-Fi supplied house and just thinking will this not even make one a frequent reader and blogger? Isn't this the world we want? I can sense the hot stomach but Ken is here to give me stories of what happened since as the moon shines outside. I wondser if he knows that I am thinking about the moon outside.

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