A lizard in a third world country doesn’t become a crocodile by moving to a first world. The bush man doesn’t become modernized merely by moving to an urban center. It’s easy to get a man out of the village; it’s another thing to get the village out of a man. The person with a [...]

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The midnight caller vs the killer of the month…

by Steve Muthusi on July 2, 2010

I ignored the first two too familiar knocks, but the third was a bang. I reached for my revolver, confirmed that the bullet I was about to cock was no rubber, then slid the cocked gun under my pajama and belted up. I tip toed to the door, peeped through the keyhole and…there she stood!
My [...]

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Get going, keep moving and…don’t stop!

June 24, 2010

I owe this one to my dear wife, Jenny…She believes ‘…if a situation knocks you flat on your tummy…crawl, and keep moving…its the only way up to your feet’ It was Winston Churchill who said, ‘if you are going through hell, keep going’. I agree. The only way out is- keep moving.
The cards we are [...]

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The ‘Energy Leaks Complex’ … A letter from my reader

May 27, 2010

I received this letter from Nick and realised we all suffer from this condition at varied degrees. With his permission, lets share from this predicament.
Dear life doc.
Excuse my language, am not a medic, but I have this malady, one that won’t go away. It’s ripping the life out of me. I have these patterns which are disrupting and blocking my [...]

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Your past and your destiny…the beauty of the past is that it is past

May 24, 2010

‘Yesterday ended last night’… So goes an old dictum, yet we let the misdeeds of yesterday perpetuate our today. The ghosts of yesterday are allowed to haunt our today. We live under the shadows of our past, in the archives of what was or has been, missing what is and what can be.
We are drawn [...]

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In concealing there is no healing; when I wouldn’t tell Mom, and Dad wasn’t supposed to know

May 13, 2010

‘Confessed faults are half-mended’ (Scottish proverb)
It was one of those games boys play, and only adults know are dangerous. A thrilling downhill ride on a make shift racing plaything with no brakes, no safety belts, no helmets…Only high speed!
The boy in me played ‘smart’ broke the rules Dad had set through Mom to enjoy [...]

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Fashioned for the heights; …the strings that tie our wings

May 7, 2010

Like eagles, the maker of the universe created us to scale the heights. To mount up with wings like eagles and not quack like ducks! Despite this eagle set up in me, sometimes I wake up feeling like a Hippo and simply wanting to wallow in the mud, during the day I feel like a [...]

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‘What makes a genius?’…The day I went to see the seer

April 28, 2010

The ageing heavily bearded seer adjusted His glasses revealing the dark marks where the glasses must have rested for a long time. There was a divine tranquility about him. He spoke like one who had been with the gods, and that’s what I had come to seek….wisdom.
“Son, the common notion is that a genius is [...]

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‘…Engineered for success, programmed for failure’

April 22, 2010

We are created (Engineered) in the image of a caring, loving, all wise, excellent… good God. About that, there is no question. But why the pedophile, the serial killer, the rapist, the wife batterer, the unfaithful spouse, the drug addict…and such tendencies as are ungodly?
.… Can the image be so different from the object?  NO.  [...]

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Down, not out – the attitude to cultivate

April 15, 2010
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Life, we all agree is, metaphorically speaking…a race. (Not a rat race though, but a race) And as any seasoned athlete will agree, in any race, setbacks are not lacking. From deliberately flouted rules to those broken with no intention of doing so. Sometimes you fall, other times you sprain an ankle, and even worse, [...]

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