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March 23, 2026 - Monday Musings

Spring has sprung! 🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼💐🪷💐

Maybe not here in Kigali (we have spring here year-round, dontchaknow? 😉).

And maybe not everywhere.

But the official first day of spring for the Northern Hemisphere was on Saturday, the 21st.

I don’t know about you, but for me, spring means all sorts of wondrous things.

Fresher air.

Buzzing bees.

Flowering plants.

All kinds of amazing changes taking place in nature as things come back to life after winter.

I often feel myself stretching and growing in the spring.

I make an effort to re-check my first-of-year goals and my progress on them.

I start making plans for the summer.

And best of all, I try to breathe deeply to take in the fresh spring smells (but not too deeply or I might inhale a bug 🦟).

Give it a try.

“Stand Tall, Breathe Deep, Be Unstoppable.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

March 16, 2026 - Monday Musings

You know the phrase, “Pinch me, I’m dreaming,” right?

Well, I always connect pinching with St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 (which is tomorrow).

When I was in middle and high school, if we didn’t wear green on the 17th of March, we ran the risk of being pinched (hard).

It was the “thing” to do.

I hated it.

So much so that to this day, I still make sure I have something green on when St. Paddy’s Day rolls around, “just in cases”.

And that made me think about how events in our younger years can shape us as adults.

These “traumas” can hold us back from doing, saying, behaving in certain ways.

I’m at level 55 and I still wear green on March 17th.

It doesn’t make sense.

I know, logically, that if I didn’t, nothing would happen to me.

But my brain tells me to wear green.

When do we become the boss of these thoughts and get control over them?

I believe it happens when we are aware of what drives us.

What idiosyncrasies do you have that affect how and who you are today?

February 23, 2026 - Monday Musings

Tearing something down takes far LESS time than building it up.

Let that sink in for a moment.

We spend so much time in our lives building things up: ourselves, our fitness levels, our relationships, our businesses, our reputations, our buildings, our roads, and on and on.

But all those can be destroyed in moments.

A misspoken word.

A wrong step.

A sledgehammer to a wall.

A sharp freeze.

There’s a house in our neighborhood that is just an empty plot of dirt. Three days ago, it was a massive McMansion.

5 workers demolished it in less than 3 days.

And it made me think about my Musing topic of the day…building up takes time and resilience but tearing down takes almost nothing at all.

How do we combat that?

How do we make what we do, who we are, what we accomplish count?

I believe it all comes from within.

Personal fortitude.

Inner courage.

Belief in oneself.

Because we determine who we are and what we do counts.

And you count.