Everything & Anything

D'banj must be the biggest thing in Nigeria since....well....since I don't know what! "I'm D'banj", his standard introduction line, delivered in a style that's funny, sexy and interesting all at the same time, amuses me no end. I heard his song "Why Me" for the first time while out on the town on my birthday. I had been away for months and totally out of the social loop, so I was really excited to be out on the town. So, there we were at this popular drinks/dance smoke filled bar, trying very hard to pretend that one did not mind the smoke (when you are in your late thirties, a smoke filled place does not strike you as 'interesting ambience' but more as "lung cancer"!) and basically just trying not to feel ancient next to the teeny bopper generation Y kids (why generation Y? That's another story!) who were busy gyrating and hopping (yep, hopping). Anyway, I am really trying not to stare and suddenly the music gets frantic ...

It seems there is so much death this year - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, plane crashes, train accidents; I hear of people dying in their prime - usually from cancer. Across the globe, disaster after disaster crashing on the heels of each other. And it just slams home the fact that life is really really transient and calls to mind the question of whether or not there is life after this life we are living. There are some among us that would want us to believe that they KNOW where they are going after they leave this world - heaven. Yet these same people are nowhere near being kindhearted, spiritual, giving, loving or forgiving. Does going to church on Sundays count? Does praying the mandatory five times a day count? Do the rendering of vicious and vitriolic curses on "enemies" (never mind that one could be one's own enemy!) but paying tithes guarantee a pass through the Pearly Gates? Or does simply believing, without supporting GODLY actions (the terrorists who kill ...

I can call it that, right? Blogger's block. That's what I have had, probably still have. I have been unable to write anything for weeks now, and it's not for a dearth of subjects to write about. There's so much I want to say or moan about but I just cannot seem to get past the first second or third paragraph. I have my "saved drafts" folder filled with 2-paragraph articles that would be great - if I could finish them! Anyway, I will try to finish and post at least one - tomorrow, if the words will flow!