Kibururuti🦋

Wednesday's class on taxes and accounting. Such an eye opener. These SuperCircle sessions are definitely the highlights of my week.

Soft 🤎

First inaitwa Mwendas🌚 Second, hatutembeeiii😂😂...wanatubeba na their new cars!!

I envy popcorn because hata mimi I wish I could do something dramatic like kupasuka nikiwa under pressure. But instead I just have to sit there and take it. Pathetic.

What??? I can't see this alone 😂😭

James Baldwin knew love

They say you raise the bar with your guests& this year I started from the very top. Five years old, standing on my shoulders, doing what he does best. Together we made a Kenyan classic. Ugali, Nyama choma and Kachumbari. One day he’ll stand on his own but today, we stood side by side, growing my greatest legacy and my best friend. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

My girlies .. lace pants two piece . Yay or nay ??

god, kisses, watching flowers from blooming to drying out in the vase, realization of a friendship deepening, asking for help and getting it, holding hands, so many books to read, listening to music over and over again, sweating in the hot sun and a random cold breeze comes in to cool you, making kids laugh and giggle, buying or making things for your parents, spotting the first wrinkle on your face, throwing parties, aperol spritz, licking the ice cream off your loved one’s cone, winter walks, the ocean, the sky when you wake up when nobody else is awake and many many more

“to never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.”

A young boy carries his slingshot around his neck and wears cherries like earrings in Gilgit, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Palestine – Ramallah, 2016

Leaf-shaped stone pavers in a garden path 🍃

Will I get to feel like this? I usually feel out of touch with life itself. Ooh to live - to live in this moment, be present and experience this life for what it truly is.

Laura Krifka (American, b.1985) "Little Mother," 2024 Oil on linen 24 x 18 in

When women create, it's so thoughtful and full of heart. Transforming kids healthcare like this is every bit of genius 💝

Bottega Terra Porcelain Floor Tiles.

16 years Later!!!

My mother spent eight months making this quilt. Eight months of hand-stitching every flower, every animal, every single detail while my father was in memory care and she sat alone in their house trying to keep her hands busy enough that her mind couldn't spiral. She posted it on Facebook last week with the caption "My first quilt. What do you think?" and not one of her seventy-three friends commented. Not one. I found her crying in her sewing room the next day, said she was "just being silly" but I knew what she meant. She's seventy-four years old and suddenly invisible. Her husband doesn't recognize her anymore. Her friends have moved to Florida or stopped calling. She pours everything she has left into fabric and thread and nobody even clicks like. So I posted it in a quilting group on Tedooo app without telling her, just to see if I was crazy for thinking it was extraordinary. Within two hours she had three hundred comments. People asking about her techniques, her pattern sources, begging to buy her work. A quilt shop owner offered her a commission. A woman in Texas said she cried looking at the detail in those tiny flower petals. I showed Mom the messages and she couldn't even speak, just kept reading them over and over. She joined Tedooo app that night and posted more of her work. She's sold four quilts in three weeks through her new shop there and has a six-month waitlist. Yesterday she called me from the fabric store, actually laughing, saying someone recognized her from the app. My mother exists again. Her work deserves to be seen and appreciated, and I'm so grateful there's finally a place where it is.

A library for deaf children in Burundi, built entirely from compressed earth blocks and baked clay tiles. The hammock ceiling is hand-woven sisal rope. The floor is local clay tile. The community built it with them. Utility doesn’t have to be ugly. Local materials prove it every time. 📍 Library of Muyinga, Burundi Design: BC Architects