The Journal
Daily writings, essays, observations and personal reflections.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Beginnings are exciting and endings are satisfying; almost everything difficult happens in the middle, where nothing is new and nothing is f...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Listen for a moment to what the body is asking. Water, rest, the absence of a screen. It has been carrying you all day. Give it what it need...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
My grandmother's hands are in mine when I am patient with slow things. Somewhere behind my face a village is still standing, still carrying water, still naming children after weather. I am not the beginning. I am a continuation, and the debt is one I am glad...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Not knowing is uncomfortable, so we rush to a false answer. Sit in the question a little longer today. The honest "I don't know yet" is some...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Some things ended today that did not deserve a funeral — a season, a role, a version of yourself. Endings are allowed to be quiet, and to be...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Stillness is often mistaken for doing nothing. It is closer to listening without deciding in advance what you want to hear. In a life of con...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
A reflection on what we count, and what counting can hide.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
If you are awake in the small hours, you are not as alone as it feels. Many people are doing the same quiet arithmetic. Let the moon keep yo...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The route you are ashamed of taking may be the one that actually teaches you something. Do not envy the shortcut. The long way builds what t...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Forgiveness is widely misunderstood as a gift to the person who wronged you. More often it is a decision about what you will keep carrying.\...