WHISPERS OF INSPIRATION

"Do your best" is a silent motto some friends shared in the early 90s. They strived to be the very best even in the very bad things they planned doing and got the needed attention they didn't bargain for. Over the years we hear how people with names in business, politics, media, religion and other spheres of endeavour, try their very best in life to maintain their influence and keep their position. Yet we have seen and heard serious and disturbing rhetorics of what we ought to do to be the best and how we have to do it well, only for us to arrive on the scene and perpetuate the same old order. And for the past 59 years of our nationhood most of us have been talking and following the same old pattern of import led economy. We have been talking about the beautiful misfit in our lives, while a huge deficit of our needs still hangs in the air. We have been clapping and celebrating all the time, when we are least regarded in the world. We have been talking and talking ...

The white clouds danced again, And bears our hope in curves of trust. The white clouds sits up there beaming with a graceful smile on a Tuesday. The skies look happy even with our various disagreeing testaments. And though the build up may be tense, Stay out of trouble, keep the peace and cherish the smiles even in our diversity, because we are one people. May the LORD be kind to you and guide your steps this day. Good morning & Remain Blessed #KYB ✍ #

It was an interesting evening encounter with a woman in her late 30s yesterday. I was tired after the day's rounds, so I was looking forward to a peaceful journey, when I sat by the woman. Then she dozed off and woke up after 20 minutes complaining of her missing phone. She asked me to assist her with my touch light to search for her phone. I gladly did, but she couldn't find her phone. And since the vehicle was in motion, I advised her to wait and conduct a thorough search when the vehicle stopped at its next stop. She was not pleased and kept theorising why the phone couldn't make noise if it really did fell from her hand onto the floor of the bus. She concluded that I was the one who picked her phone. I decided not to comment, though I took offense to what she said. But the manner in which her sister sitting in front of us agreed with her that I was the culprit in their dialect shocked me. So I protested and replied them in their dialect registering my displeasur...

Education without a goal is meaningless. Education without a deliberate attempt to form a good people is a failure. Education without the right moral keys to direct our affairs is a disaster. Education without the right content to inspire a people to love and serve the good of a nation is a nonstarter. Education that only focuses on success without the necessary tools to examine our shortcomings, and think of finite ways of addressing our odd ways is problematic. Education that makes us dependent on pamphlets, handouts and makes us first grade copycats is not only worrying but dehumanising. Education that makes us half baked intellectuals who are conscious of perfect result from a knee jerk approach to an ailing education that lacks strategic ways of addressing issues is sickening and disturbing. And it is not surprising that our system has trained self seeking, greedy, dishonest intellectual thieves, who are hailed by a somewhat gullible public of equal guilt. We need a holisti...

With a dawn gradually graduating into a new day, do remember to put in your very best in all your endeavours. Remember to make your best contribution today. Step out with courage to make the best of this day. Good morning & Remain Blessed #KYB ✍#