My Randomness Lives Here

I miss people. No, I’m not in my own Castaway movie. I am around people; rather they are around me. Talking to me, writing to me and stuff.  Continue reading I Miss People

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Blessing Mpofu (@blessingmpofu) 🔊 Volume Up. Today I’m working from home. Next to my desk is Otto. I wonder what is going through his mind. I project: he’s enjoying watching the rain fall. He’s watching the trees in the park negotiate their survival with the wind. Wow. A moment. Then [turn your sound on] sirens blur. One of the many emergency…

Profound: finding life and joy in simple things. Continue reading The Simple

It feels like I had almost forgot to wonder. Awe is not awe when it becomes familiar. Continue reading Untitled

One of the reasons to train for a marathon is to make sure that I will be able to start and finish without breaking. I also want to be wise in my training and, at the end “race”. Besides my marathon training plan, I’m gleaning from other sources and experts on how to do it well. Where else to better pick up tips than from the legendary Eliud Kipchoge. In an interview I watched-listened to, he…

So, I’m running my first marathon, ever. This year (2023) was the first time I ran 21.2 kilometres, and I did that in a half marathon race. Of course, I didn’t just get up and go run it, I trained for it. After running The Two Oceans Half Marathon, I joked about setting my sights on a full marathon. The truth is I only half-joked, and I am going to run The Cape Town Marathon later year.  How Did…

Sometimes we’re only holding a piece of the puzzle and it’s not the whole picture. Continue reading Untitled

Things We Need But Have No Control Over

There are things we have control over. Try to control other things and it’s over. We can only do so much and then we have to hope and trust. It’s not what we do now in hope for what’s to come. We are strong and powerful. Meek and weak. Hope is our actions. Dreams are really in the sky. We can only do so much, and that we must. The rest is for us to look up. After we can and have done. We…

Wrote a rambling reflection on my physical health + fitness last year. IN part a personal health manifesto first draft. You might also find it helpful.

On What Is Possible To Do

Limitations are inevitable. They’re ubiquitous. Striving for a reality free of limitations is a fallacy. To make progress not every limitation is worth pushing against. Making headway sometimes means negotiating, and even cooperating with them. Everyday I wrestle with, “what is possible?” (more…)

Live. Play Well Your Part.

The passing of people who’ve touched our lives tends to cause us to pause. Well, at least, that’s the case for me. I’m reminded of how transient life can be, and at the same time, challenged to live better. (more…)

Beauty Is Not Monolithic

Beauty is not monolithic––there is no one picture for it. Thinking beauty only exists a certain can blind us to the other ways it presents itself. This makes our world narrow and bland. It might even mean that we appreciate less. And when we don’t see the beauty in our lives, or around us we’re bound to squander it.  (more…)

Zooming in a choice of focus—making of some things relevant and other things irrelevant. A thread ⬇️

I still like seeing how buildings and things, maybe even people, stand as individual entities, and how they engage and relate to their surroundings. Continue reading