In Loving Memory of My Mother, Beatrice Wanjiku Gichohi (1971-2021)
Kaleidoscope Blog is inspired by my mother—in her life and in her death. Losing her shattered me into tiny, scattered pieces. It felt like I had lost my center, like I was drifting without the anchor that had always grounded me.Her death forced me to face myself, to ask the question, Who am I without her?
My mother was a phenomenal woman, and there was immense pride in simply being her daughter. In losing her, I was thrust into a painful metamorphosis. On the outside, I may have looked the same. But on the inside, it was as if the very atoms of my being had disintegrated.
I was inside a kaleidoscope, shifting with the changing patterns, flowing with the turns of grief and growth. And in time, a new light began to form in my eyes. Her death broke me. But in that breaking, I was reborn.
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