A big shame at Athletics Kenya.

The drama and theatrics in Kenyan politics, at whatever capacity end only to begin a new. And we quite never look below the surface of things, really.
I am quite dismayed by the recently concluded elections at Riadha house, not that I run or swim, can do it or will ever consider doing so, unless something really huge and very dangerous is running behind me just as fast, or faster. My concern is the attitude of the old guns now comfortably occupying the prestigious house.
Almost all officials comfortably retained their seats, quite discouraging in a country where power is shared even in the highest office, which by the way I think, is absurdly dangerous. This is an assumption of monopoly of knowledge and skills, which is a perfect cocktail for the looming lapse in leadership gap; not so dissimilar if you are a Kenyan. Worse still is the business-as-usual attitude assumed by Kiplagat and team.
My discontent is not so irrational, and here are my adduced facts.
Soon after being elected Kiplagat said that he ‘…would spend 50% of the time resting, and the rest ensuring that general Tuwey does …’ I don’t know what. But it is to the effect that Tuwey will be doing the work Kiplagat was elected for. So my issue; now that the chairman, implicitly will be doing nothing in the office, unless 100% minus 50% minus ‘the rest’ does not amount to zero, why did he vie in the first place? Why can’t he let this Tuwey do whatever it is that he is supposed to do the office the whole time, now that during his share of the time he will be sleeping in the office? (That’s the only way I know to rest.) and again, why should we believe that Kiplagat will do that, given what he said four years ago, when he was elected, something to the effect that it would have been his last term?
Maybe you don’t, but I see a big problem in our style of leadership, when we are ignoring the ambrosial talent in the youth. And the whole process of elections was apocryphal anyway.
And I almost forgot to mention that all officials elected in Athletics Kenya are men, as though women don’t do athletics! Yeah, of course I remember Jelimo!

OUR LIVES.

Our lives are very interesting. They do not follow the dramatic arc that our good plans intend. Life is not an art, and only in very rare incidences of pure perfection does the world actually become a stage; and that clearly, people, we can see, is a shame. Imagine all you have to do having been premeditated?
The reality is, our live are actually imperfect visions of reality, and only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it. This, my dear readers, is not pro activity, but a reactionary measure.

Problematic English.

AFTER ITS' CURRENCY PROBLEM EUROPE SOLVES ITS LANGUAGE PROBLEMS

I have received fresh news from the ongoing UN summit in the United States concerning the current sorry state of English as a language. The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phased plan for what will be known as Euroenglish. (Euro for short.)

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl will be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!

Leaders read.

It has been clear to me for a while, and now i feel obligated to let you know that its not an option for leaders to read, its a lifestyle. If there is anyone following you, you need to know something that they dont. Acommon saying goes that if you want to hide anything from an African, put it in a book, but guess what, they are wrong now. Africans are the medicine for our beatiful continent, and unless we interact with great thinkers, through their books, there is not much we can do for Africa. Our brothers who have gone before us have fascinating reads; think Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o.... list is endless. Recently i read Duncan Ndegwas 'In the Footsteps ...' and that is a really mind wakening book.
Now get up and grab a book!

The trouble with mankind.

I just figured that mankind will be hoist by his own petard.
What is wrong with us? The other day they changed the composition of the galaxy. They ostracized Pluto from the solar system. What can we say of a Galaxy which we keep altering rules for conveniences sake? And if Pluto had a serious name, say Amsterdam, Sydney or Desmond, would things be different?

Pointers you should know

Energy flows where attention goes.
The Economic thought we are taught about scarcity is a lie! There is enough for us in the catalogue of the universe.There are enough resources to go all round the whole world, if only you set your mind to be aware of its infinite nature.
The moment you think about scarcity, it becomes your experience, and when you follow your heart, you hardly chase after the same things.
There is certainly enough for you, if you can believe it, you can see it, if you can see it, you can act from if, and it will show up for you. We all have unbounded potential! Think about the possibilities.

the thing with love

Love, love, love!All the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures o courtship!

wanna know more? check this space.