MID MAY MONDAY MUSINGS!

 

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Happy mid May! It’s crazy how the days are flying by these days it’s like no sooner has the month started than it’s ending already! Crazy! Anyway just thought I should share some random thoughts going through my head this Monday...

It’s funny how something I grew up eating while sitting underneath my grandmother’s mango tree is now a “thing”...enters Avocado Toast! I come from an avocado growing and exporting country, they are literally found growing any and everywhere in the avocado growing regions, everyone’s compound will most certainly have an avocado tree or three in these regions, it’s so commonplace it accompanies our bread, our meals, our fruit salads, you just name it and we can eat it with an avocado in it or on the side. My avocado privilege means I find it funny even ridiculous at times how this regular fruit is now a “thing”. Wait until I tell you of the many afternoons we spent splitting open macadamia nut shells with little stones to get to the nuts inside during macadamia nut season...or maybe I will wait until macadamia nuts become a “thing”.

Something else that makes me laugh is how English speaking corporations borrow words from other languages and turns them into something else. Let’s take the Italian word for milk “latte” for example if there ever was a word that is overused in coffee chains this has got to be it. Don’t get me started on “chai” which is Persian/Indian in origin but also claimed by Kiswahili (by way of Persia/India thanks to trade, migration and colonialization) which is now almost something considered a “fancy” drink. Everyone and their grandmother wants to be seen drinking or heard ordering a chai tea latte. Chai literally means tea so saying “Chai Tea” is somehow redundant don’t you think? Some people will visit some other part of the world (East Africa, India, Persia etc) where drinking good old regular chai is commonplace and it’s actually called chai and start saying but this isn’t chai tea because it hasn’t been made in the same way as “gentrified” by your favourite coffee chain. And then there are those that open a Bistro and charge prices on the menu that are in competition with five star restaurants. The word Bistro literally means a small inexpensive restaurant. I could go on and on but that’s it for today’s musings my brain is exhausted.

Oh I almost forgot I got caught in a downpour the other day and got drenched from top to bottom, yep serves me right for leaving my umbrella at home despite the rain forecast. As I was drying up later when I got home I noticed my hair was extra soft turns out that whole thing about rain water being good for your hair is actually true. I could immediately feel the difference in the softness of my hair after being soaked in rain water. I am so tempted to collect some next time it rains and use it on wash day!

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