19/06/2024
📜 I Break It to You!
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I've tried very hard to keep this to myself thinking there would be some better time to tell you but I can't keep it anymore. It just keeps coming and the harder I try to keep it, the more it burdens me.
You know, life has a way of cutting us open just to see what material we are made of. Sometimes life breaks us. At other times, it tears us apart and still, at other times, it sickens us and there are so many such times in our lifetime.
At one such time in my life, after I fell in love with words, I began asking myself how can these words which mean a lot to me help me make life a little better. There, a journey was borne, Knitting Life With Words.
Therefore, "Knitting Life with Words" is a quest on how words can make life a little better. The project was conceived in 2022 and so far, it has been a journey of wandering, wandering with words.
Within me, it is a search for wholeness again. It is a gathering of pieces, pieces of life. is a journey of healing, transformation and renewal.
This year, I submitted the project for the Goethe Découverte Program organized by the Goethe-Institut Kamerun and it was selected. The first live concert of the project is scheduled for the 12th of July in Yaoundé.
I am very excited to share this journey with you. Every time I think of it, I am overwhelmed because Knitting Life is the genesis of many stories. It includes poems, stories and spoken words I wrote during the most profound and vulnerable moments of my life. The truth is, I've been a lot of things in this life and this me was never part of the plan.
I think I have said too much already but actually, it is just the tip of the iceberg; much much more is still unsaid and the upcoming concert is the place where you will see all that has been said and that which will be said.
Your unwavering support and presence at this concert will mean everything to me. I look forward to having you so that together we will share in this journey.
Yours truly,
Donn WAI 💝