Teiya Oloilole

SCATTERED SEEDS by WACERA KIEHA & TEIYA OLOILOLE.

Today.   ‘Go before the Lord…’   Sheila doesn’t need to raise her bowed head to behold the spectacle. The man of God walking with vigor across the podium. Hand with handkerchief raised skyward. Sweat trickling down his forehead.   ‘Ask Him to forgive you…’   Today things are different. Sands of Grace church. All around, people are praying vehemently, some already breaking out in tears and others…

​”You can start over again! Don’t even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life.…

Courtesy of Artidote “They don’t see what hurts you until it kills you.” ~Unknown Pardon my manners but why are all of you in tears? The only thing I care about right now is if only I could move. Damn. Always a size too small. And the lining in here looks so smooth. But they got the color wrong. It was supposed to be blue. Not white. A dying man’s last wish. Oh I didn’t tell you. It’s my funeral.…

PEACE! I’LL PASS

I have been having an itch lately. Scratch it off. Very funny of you. But it’s one of those itches that just won’t go away. A constant nag beneath the skin, you scratch and scratch but nothing. You want to peel off your skin and scratch the itchy spot. Lately, with the looming Election Day fast approaching there has been a lot of peace talk. Peace this. Peace that. Suddenly we all understand our…

My Presidential Inauguration Speech

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

– Anatole France

  Ambitions. Aspirations. Desires. Whatever name you like to describe that fire in your belly when you want something so bad, you are willing to go to any length to get it. These are just some of the things that…

Book Review: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

“There should be no room in your life for regret. If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?” -Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing.

I like to think of life as one big ball of coincidences. You bump into a girl at the supermarket, and fifty years later you are yet to decide whether it was planned or coincidence (soulmates meet this way I hear). A few weeks…

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.”

-Soren Kierkegaard

  Just because it gets hard does not mean you let go.

  At the edge of life anything is possible. Like a coin toss. As the coin tosses and turns…

From Across the Divide…

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

-George R. R. Martin.

  I want you to walk with me on a journey of discovery. Our destination? Lands unknown. Dark continents. You must fit into my shoes. Feel the pinch. Experience being me. It began a few months back but, let us start off from last Thursday. I decided to stop being the prodigal…

Dear Follower, This is to notify all of my esteemed followers that this blog has moved to a new site tsoipei.com. Our interactions over the past months just to say the least have been more than fruitful. I have made meaningful interactions and created friendships that would have otherwise never happened. Oh!!..and the lessons have been invaluable. I would very much love to continue our…

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked. -Richelle E. Goodrich ‘Mwizi! Mwizi!’ The cry tears the early Saturday morning air. A battle cry. A victory cry. The beginning of a dirge song. A call to action. It is all about perspective. Even a man standing at the back of a mirror can imagine…

‘Struggling writer.’ Remember that phrase? Jane? No. You don’t. My bad. So, I did this post on the struggles of a being a writer, to read it click here. She raged. The writer it was dedicated to. How do you throw me under the bus like that. Couldn’t you at least have used an alias. ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.’ Luckily, for me the fury was that she finally got around to finishing the…

Life is funny. A frown? A nod? The other day a close friend (I call her Daktari) of mine, texts me like, ‘I have a female writer friend of mine would you like to say hi.’ I love writers. I would never say no to a writer *wink.* So mama raised me right. I say hi and ask for an introduction. You will not guess what I got. Anyone? ‘A struggling writer.’ I screamed at my phone. I know writers are…

‘Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.’ -SOPHOCLES March 2006, The inside of the rickety matatu is sweltering. Passengers are trickling in slowly. James shifts for the umpteenth time in his seat. He can feel his armpits soak in sweat. It does not help that the fastened seatbelt is restricting his movement. ‘Damn this matatu, why is it taking…