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@tcruiru #WorshipExperience Amazing experience. @TGKenya (at Ruiru-Ruai Bypass)

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Happening now at @TCRuiru #WorshipExperience #BeStill #IAmGod... Pleasant night God's people. #representingchristtothefullest (at Ruiru Town)

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Meticulous fiancee... Got to love it. #Presentationmanenoz @NimzieKingdomChild @musasubuhi8 (at Jamhuri)

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#ShipIt now. Do it now. @musasubuhi8 @fanakaliving

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Downloading to a phone next to you.. ;-) @kuzapp @KubambaRadio

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Characters in the world of #Fanaka... The Odyssey begins... Here!!! @fanakaliving @musasubuhi

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A family of friends. #comingbacktome #grooveback @KubambaRadio @ThisGeneration #arboretum

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From our first pre-marital counseling session... #foreigntings #LoveHerLikeChilli #Adorablegirl @NimzieKingdomChild (at Jamhuri)

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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

Sylvia Plath (via thoughtkick)

Isn't that the truth.

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Did you know.

It’s Women’s History Month!

Can you name 5 women artists? The National Museum of Women in the Arts is leading a campaign to call attention to the inequity women artists face today, as well as in the past.

Here are some our favorite women artists from the Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute special collections.

Luisa Roldán (called “La Roldana”) - She was a court sculptor and the first woman sculptor recorded in Spain! She married another sculptor, and they worked together to become Luisa’s father’s primary source of income. 

Julia Margaret Cameron - She started her career in photography at age 48 and went on to photograph intellectuals and leaders in Victorian England. She’s well known for her dreamlike photographs of her family, and was drawn to inspiration from literature. 

Giovanna Garzoni - She was one of the first women still life painters. Her work was so well loved that, according to one writer, she could sell her work “for whatever price she wished.” Among her many patrons was the famous Medici family.

Rosa Bonheur - She was a realist painter and sculptor most known for her beautiful and lifelike paintings of animals. Her work was exhibited in the 1848 Paris salon, and today she is considered to have been the most famous female painter of the 19th century. Page through one of her sketchbooks here.

Maria Sybilla Meriaen - She was both a naturalist and scientific illustrator. She published her first book at age 28! Her compositions are dynamic and full of life, not surprising as she was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly. 

Who is your favorite woman artist? #5WomenArtists

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This is totally amazing.

Last year I did a few write-ups and drawings about some lady fighters from history who fought openly as their gender (there are plenty of disguised-as-a-man soldiers and plenty of trans soldiers, but those are outside the scope of this series).  This is by no means an exhaustive list; there were plenty of great figures that my schedule didn’t permit me to tackle (at least not yet).  But as Women’s History Month gets started tomorrow, I thought y’all might enjoy reading about some of history’s toughest broads.

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knowlEDGE, WEsdom and FUNderstanding!! 😀😀👍 (at Ngong, Kenya)

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Sets you free. #thetruth (at Ngong, Kenya)

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@DaystarUniversity @tg.kenya @Miss.Bubbles @KubambaRadio #galamanenoz too too good!!!

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She is like a wildflower poking up through the cracks in a hot summer sidewalk. Her petals blow in the afternoon breeze, torn and flattened by the dusty, bare heels of children running up and down the street. Her roots latch onto the dry soil coated in concrete, her stem sticking rebelliously through the slim crack. She is rooted in defiance, a wild, crazy, desperate attempt at colorful beauty in this dismal and dusty world. I used to wonder why she chose to grow there. Why she picked this dry and barren sliver of the earth, surrounded by concrete and constrictions. Why didn’t she grow over there, in a grassy forest floor? Why not over there, in the neighbor’s flowerbeds? Yet, we don’t always get to chose where our seeds blow. We don’t get to choose where the wind sets us down in this diverse and ever-changing world. She chose to bloom no matter where she was planted. She chose to grow her roots in the unlikeliest of places, and now I see the bravery in her torn petals.

sidewalk wildflowers // c.r.h. (via carpelanoche)

Food for thought!!! Good stuff.

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Hi, my name is the smart girl My name is the quiet girl. My name is the one who sits in the back with a book, who gets straight A’s but isn’t smart enough to hold a conversation. My name is not my name, it’s the labels placed on me. It’s the tags filled out with red sharpie and stuck on my shirt. That’s what the world says, anyways. See, the world would have you believe that who you are comes from what you do. That your identity is based on your actions, your achievements, your victories and defeats. But who you are is not for them to decide- it’s set in stone by the one who died. Your purpose, your meaning, the reason for your life- he had that in mind as he made his sacrifice. It doesn’t matter what you earn, how you place, so long as you’re committed to running this race. So if you’re wondering who you are, if you find yourself thinking “I don’t know who I am”- all you need to remember is the great I AM. He always was, always will be, and he has a plan. So hi, my name is made new. My name is a beautiful thing. My name is yours, and that’s all I’ll ever believe.

hi, my name is // c.r.h. (via carpelanoche)

Wow!!

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Flow to the beat. @DaystarUniversity I love dance. #Mr&MissClubademics (at Nairobi, Kenya)