lifewithfelly

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  • The Messy Middle – a lifewithfelly newsletter

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    I drafted my newsletter yesterday before my bedtime which was a disciplined 9pm by the way. I had a restful sleep, and woke up energized only to wake up to the sad headlines on the internet about the young lady that was raped in Cornell university. My blood boiled, I was disgusted not just at…

  • 101 essays that will change the way you think by Brianna Wiest

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    101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think is one of those rare books I know I’ll return to again and again this year; not because it’s dense or demanding, but because it’s gentle in the way it unsettles you. Each essay is brief, often just a page or two, but they don’t rush…

  • The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi

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    I Wanted a Man Who Saves Himself -So I Started Saving Myself If there’s ever been a book that demanded more than just reading ; that asked for strength, patience, and a whole lot of emotional recalibration, it was The Rational Male. This was a difficult read, at first. I didn’t finish it in one sitting. I…

  • The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

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    The Sex Lives of African Women was, without exaggeration, one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. Not because it was easy. Not because it was comforting. But because it was real — raw, unapologetic, and deeply human. I came into it with assumptions I didn’t even know I carried: that sexuality for African women was…

  • What seven days on the road will do to you

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    I finished my final exam for my Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree on 14th December 2022. I remember very clearly that it was a Wednesday. Four days later, on Saturday 17th December at about 5:55 am, I boarded Tahmeed from Nairobi to Dar-es-Salaam, and about one-fifth of my trip began. As is customary whenever I…

  • Airport conversations

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    A conversation with Felistus on August 5th 2023 2128hrs The specificity of the time- that’s from this little trick I started where I add time stamps when I’m journaling because I journal up to five times a day. Shoot me; writing is a form of therapy for me. I don’t for the life of me know…

  • Unexpected Friendships And Impromptu Travels

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    I’m seated at Addis on my layover, laptop about to die and my cable is not suited to the charging ports they have at the airport. If someone had told Felistus at the start of the year that she would be seated in Addis on her way from Ghana and Ivory Coast she would laugh…

  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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    Chimamanda has done it again. I didn’t expect to finish Purple Hibiscus and feel like someone had cracked open my chest and left it there, raw and trembling. It started with Jaja. One moment, he was the quiet son, the obedient one. The next, he refused. He stopped answering to his father’s voice. And that…

  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

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    A New Earth isn’t just a book I read- it’s one I’ll return to again and again, not just this year, but for the rest of my life. It was a wake-up call: a gentle but firm invitation to wake up to myself- not the story I tell about who I am, but the quiet,…

  • Deep Work by Cal Newport

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    From the very first page, I felt seen. Not because the book accused me, but because it named something I’d been ignoring: that my phone isn’t a tool I use — it’s a master I serve. I check it while waiting for the kettle to boil. I check it while walking to the store. I check it…