“We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.”

~T.S. Eliot, The Journey of The Magi

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Glory
by NoViolet Bulawayo

No longer at ease
by Chinua Achebe

Call Us What We Carry
by Amanda Gorman

I read these three remarkable titles between Christmas 2022 and New Year 2023 (Glory was actually an Xmas gift). So that by their light we may see beyond the darkness and uncertainty that is the coming year – 2023. May their words and wisdom bless you as they have blessed me and may 2023 be good to us

Tholukuthi a light in the dark!
a trilogy
signed by myself, Jonathan N. Wakeling, Jona, Chief Speak-a-little-French, Picasso Three and Starseed So La Kin

(aka Napoleon*, The Pig)

At

The Ukraine Refuge (previously Kremlin) at Big Tree Harare

On this day, December 31st 2022

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*P.S. BTW Orwell’s Animal Farm is next on my reading list