Climate change is bad bad bad.
This comes from the point of view a woman who likes to go outdoors and receive her daily dose of vitamin D. Okay... maybe not daily...
July is normally a cool or cold month. Every Kenyan knows just how cold June July and August can get. That is usually the time you match your jacket to your lips and colour code your scarf with your shoes... or something like that. It is mostly dry so what is mud?
This year however, with the late rains, "freeze and shine" is not possible. How do you even start to leave your house with no idea of how you could come home and find water became an unwelcome guest? Unless it is leaking out of your taps during a rationing by the city's providers...
So now, being girly and chic is trying to be functional and warm in the cold season. How to go about wearing and shedding layers is exhausting. Especially if you grabbed the first bunch of clothes you had and threw them on, thinking that the cold would persist throughout the day. Well, should I pull a Naomi Clark and decline the offer to take off my coat gracefully? Hmm... maybe...?
What's this on my forehead? No, it isn't sweat. I'm thawing ice in my coat. Oh, am i gasping for air? Nope, I am pausing for dramatic effect-
If anyone needs to revive me with my inhaler, I think I lost it...
Anyway, climate change is real and now we have to change our wardrobes. Again.
Lord have mercy!
Sincerely,
Me!
