Becoming The Muse

Coffee With Royal Tea

If you were having coffee with me, I would welcome you to my tangle of words and ask you to feel at home. I am just about to fire up the barbecue and the meat has been in a marinade which includes a difficult to pronounce sauce.

There is no special occasion, its courtesy of the power utility company’s load shedding…  the meat was about to go bad, so figured might as well as go out with a braai. Part of the reason of the marinade was to mask the onset of spoiling. Now if you didn’t know you will never know… what happens in the kitchen stays in the kitchen.

So Worcestershire sauce, not only is it  a savory sauce made up of vinegar, soy sauce and spices, its also named after a historic county in west-central England. The sauce was invented in the city of Worcester in the 19th century by pharmacists John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins, who were so fond of it that they named it after their county.

It was the best of Shire it was the Worcestershire…..

If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that according to the grapevine there is some Royal Tea brewing… You may or may not know this, but at one point Zimbabwe used to export exclusive tea to Buckingham palace for her late majesty Queen Elizabeth. So naturally, it would be normal for us to be curious about the comings and goings of royalty. Kate Middleton’s absence from the public eye since December and the emergence of photoshopped images have led to viral conspiracies about infidelity, domestic violence, possibly murder or ritual sacrifice for the ill king in the royal household.

“Even in palaces, there are spiders.”

Udide’s Book of Shadows

While the monarchy wields little in the way of actual power, they have a great deal of soft power and visibility is large part of their currency. When they arent in the public’s eye the vacuum they leave behind gets filled with mystery and speculation.

If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that I thought it was our country alone that faced challenges with elections but happenings throughout the world have shown that democracy might be a bit of a scam enterprise… Ukraine cancelled its elections citing the war and some called their president a dictator, others call it democracy, Russia had elections in which Putin won and some call him a dictator others call it democracy…

Which is which? All I know is that Russia has one of the highest rates of people who unalive themselves by falling out of windows.. Lets say elections are actually free, fair and credible as they should be… they will say the people have chosen…but have the people really chosen, what about those whose choice gets overlooked because they were in the minority, a choice gets imposed on you and the world keeps turning…. Also who are the gatekeepers of this said democracy – who decides what is and isn’t democratic.

If you were having coffee with me, I would tell you that Zimbabwe has been ranked the third happiest country in Africa according to the Mental State of the World in 2023. The Mental State of the World Report is an annual publication of the Global Mind Project that provides a view of the evolving mental wellbeing of the global Internet-enabled population.

I will admit I found it interesting that according to this report for 2023, Zimbabwe ranked so high in Africa, I would have placed us somewhere at the bottom of the pile. According to the report, one could, for example, “be experiencing very difficult or sad circumstances but nonetheless have all the capabilities to cope as best as one could, and therefore have a high level of mental wellbeing“. I guess that kinda explains it, when I think on how my blogging is also coping mechanism, exorcising the thoughts that rattle around in my head.

Whats been happening in your neck of the woods?

~B