To build a dream on

“Well,” my friend John said after watching me staring at the same page of my book for 10 minutes straight, “what happens now?” What happens now? “I don’t know,” I answered, slowly closing the book and placing it back on the bookshelf. “Let me quote Ijeoama Umebinyuo,” he whispered, I could feel his chest pressing…

Imperfections and all

Out of all of the things that I had been expecting to happen yesterday, receiving a parcel directly from Germany was not on the list. Sure, I was waiting for a letter of some sort and maybe a postcard but nothing could have prepared me for the present that was stashed inside the big envelope….