Artist: Jim Warren Recently, at midday, I find myself smiling fondly at memories I do not remember making until they started flashing rapidly, a rhapsody of several happy moments, good people, friends, and lovers. I remember a sketchy hotel I stayed at in Ibadan to attend the wedding of a friend of a friend, the… Continue reading HAPPY MEMORIES
Author: Dcconnoisseur
This writer seeks Ikigai- a life surrounded by meaning and spurred on by purpose. To exist without labels and labelling, to be confined yet free, to amplify each dimensions of existence. Outside this curated persona, I love to travel, hope to speak at Tedx one day and seek to deploy legality as a tool of social engineering.
THE MANY FACES OF MY LOVERS
Image from Pinterest Khi was lanky, fair, with no dimples thouh skillful with his hands... Oh come off it you dirty mind, I meant he had talents for the piano. He made me giddy, butterflies and all. No stolen kisses, no petting, just gifts and memories shared around music and texts but that ended and… Continue reading THE MANY FACES OF MY LOVERS
Kind Hearts
Image from Pinterest. He said, "Hush I do not care for your opinion." I, who my father raised to practice how to talk at midnight I, who hear the voice of my father reminding me to speak How did I get here? Is it that I wanted appraisals that I could not validate in myself… Continue reading Kind Hearts
The Soul Dance
Art by Bulman. It is Valentine today, 8:20 pm precisely as I type this in my dimly lit room. I have just finished a meal that ordinarily ought to have been breakfast by its design. Prior, I went flower hunting. I have never bought a live plant. I don't even know if I can keep… Continue reading The Soul Dance
Scars and Healing
Image by Wilgom Following the release of Acrimony, the controversial Tyler Perry movie, many conversation tables could not settle on who was justified and to what extent. Being a woman, I quite understand the raging support women had for the heroine and the outrage at the audacity of the protagonist to recreate the life he… Continue reading Scars and Healing
When a Place becomes a Person
By Mariasole Macchia. I am not a typical tourist. I travel primarily for the experience of my memory and intuition. I view it as a curation of some sort only with footprints as colours and the places as the canvas collected. To give a visual representation, imagine a globe, I mean a map shaped round… Continue reading When a Place becomes a Person
LAST INCIDENCES
Art by Izzakko Initially, when the inspiration to write this piece came I was in my feelings. I really did not want to write about the emotions churning within because if I looked closely, I could see shame, anger, and disappointment. I read somewhere that anger is an emotion that reflects self-love because it gives… Continue reading LAST INCIDENCES
THE PARALLEL LINE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD
Original drawing by Curecherche Ato. Hello!!! I think I was too enthusiastic with that greeting considering I am about to attempt a philosophical diatribe. The concept of good and bad is as old as time itself and the understanding as evolutionary as morality. Mathematically, parallel lines cannot meet or intersect at any point. If they… Continue reading THE PARALLEL LINE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD
THE STORIES WE EMBODY
Painting by Lina Iris Viktor. The pre-eminence about being a writer asides from individual storytelling is the ability to tell collective stories, singular stories till they become mantras, and to borrow the stories of others that we encounter. Today, I want to share the story of a woman I met in a restroom in a… Continue reading THE STORIES WE EMBODY
THE FEMINIST MAN
Image from Pinterest. I am not sure how to navigate this topic because it seems contradictory to the ideals of feminism to allude to the importance of a feminist man but maybe that is the intrigue with opposing ideas, the ability to hold parallel truths with equanimity. I know you must have encountered the use… Continue reading THE FEMINIST MAN
Connoisseur of Memories 