jchangala-blog

[jchangala-blog]

Dear blog....

moving more or less all of my content to Lusaka Letters on Substack Hi dear blogreaders and wordpressers! I am very quiet over here, and I will contiune to be. To be fair to you that have followe and read my writing here I have now invited all of you to be free subscribers over on my Substack, where I pubish Lusaka Letters. You will get a pretty updated and more frequent posting in many ways,…

[jchangala-blog]

Lusaka Letter July: Scattered writers brain...

I have always been a people pleaser. My whole life. Have said yes too much, have not used the word no enough. Now I am tired of doing things just because I have too. Finally I am done saying yes to what does not feel right, I have learnt to say no. And it really comes down to me loving my time. Having time to spend on what I like to do, or what I want, but also what I need to do. I especially…

[jchangala-blog]

Wrote another LL

Will keep posting here with small reminders on that I am nowadays, at least sometimes, writing over on Substack. Please read my latest Lusaka Letter HERE! Feel free and generous to like, share and comment. Would love to hear from you.

[jchangala-blog]

Lusaka Letters

I have started a newsletter over at Substack. It is called Lusaka Letters and I intent to write it twice monthly to begin with. I have not decided to stop publishing here on the blog completely, but have felt uninspired to blog recently and found the newsletter form more exiting right now. I write it like it is a letter home, or away, to someone. Please feel free to go and subscribe. Would make…

[jchangala-blog]

Still thinking about writing

Still thinking about writing

[jchangala-blog]

Thoughts on seasons

[jchangala-blog]

What makes a home?

What makes a home?

[jchangala-blog]

The Changala life through my Camera roll

The Changala life through my Camera roll

[jchangala-blog]

Rest and resist

When living in a world like ours, there is never really time for a break. As a person feeling it all, there is never a moment of complete stillness. Only if I take it myself, the stillness. I make myself sit with the feelings and let them be. let them be and finally I am relieved, it feels a little bit easier. I breath through it, I sit with it, I sometimes cry. I know I need to take care of…

[jchangala-blog]

Article in The Buzz Zambia

Article in The Buzz Zambia

February has so far been an interesting experience. Schools are up and running so my main job is to be the kids chauffeur and do the school runs. When I come back home in the mornings I have time, for almost the first time in my life, to do whatever I feel like. And what I do right now is mostly my studying, writing and thinking about how to develop my writing. A couple of weeks ago I got an…

[jchangala-blog]

Words on reading and resting

Words on reading and resting

And then we are already a week into February! Time do really fly by. Even if I did complain over January, I still do not want to miss living my life. Had a good reading start on the year, but sometimes when all I do is reading, I feel like I am missing out. I do know that for me reading and resting is necessary. Especially in certain periods of my life. I live with a chronic disease called…

[jchangala-blog]

Monthly wrap up

[jchangala-blog]

Weekend of wood work and school prep

Weekend of wood work and school prep

[jchangala-blog]

What´s streaming?

Have had a lot of time on the streaming services recently.

It´s still raining most of the time. Today we got a little bit of sunshine and it was warmer. Not much have changed since last weeks update. We are still doing online learning and internet is slow, slower this week, the rain is still heavy and the thunders frequent. I am also still in a funk, still tired like I get no sleep. Which I do, I sleep, so it makes no sense. Don’t know the reasons of…

[jchangala-blog]

January funk

Time seems to be moving slow. So slow. Right now. Another second, minute, day, they just drag themselves forward. We are all still right in the pandemic and here in Zambia we are just in the slow down of the forth wave. That meant that the government pushed the school start forward, from the 10th of January to the 24th. And as parents putting their kids in a private school that are trying their…

[jchangala-blog]

Farm dreams

A visit on the farm and some thoughts on the last month of 2021

New year, new dreams? For me, not really. Same dreams and time is just moving on. To be honest I had nothing against leaving 2021 behind. It was a year of great things, like a intercontinental move, but also a year of loss. My grand mother died in April, we left Sweden behind (I love living in Zambia but when having two countries there is always one that is missed, no matter what) and December…

[jchangala-blog]

Thinking about storytelling

Have been thinking about storytelling lately. The whole idea of stories and how we bring them to the world. A lot of it has to do with me studying creative writing, I guess, but it also struck me as I share more in Stories on Instagram while we are settling in here in Lusaka. Struck me, as in what stories am I telling through the photos and small videos I put out, and which stories people…