Home Girl

As we bid farewell to the month of  September .....which is the most beautiful and heart warming month before Thanksgiving and Christmas.

We call it Heritage month here in South African(On the 24th of September we were celebrating Heritage Day here in South African. It was so beautiful to see our Nation embracing their roots and Heritage, wearing Traditional attires or embracing the next person's heritage), some call it Spring month, Birth of new things month and New Year in some of our sister African Countries.

This year on Heritage Day I  was wearing this Nigerien attire, which by the way reminds me of Half The Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who is  an Nigerian Author.

For me September  however has made me miss home.The South Coast( Mkomass in Amahlongwa Mission) that's where my heart is and my roots get watered. Eating my Granz's food and just listening to her stories, hahaha yes she knows everything that happens in the whole village.

On a serious note though.........I always find knew strength when I visit home, the atmosphere is filled with so much love and life. Each breath I take in feels like I am taking my life back.
There is just something so wholesomely  and spiritual about being home. It's like all my worries are taken away just by setting my foot on the ground. It's a place of no judgement, a place of emotional and spiritual nourishment. Sitting on my Granz veranda and looking at the beach from afar has to be the best view I have ever set my eyes on since my childhood,

Being in my Granz home is like receiving a emotional revival. Knowing that I away a home to run to gives me so much peace and I am truly grateful to have my family. I would be the first to admit that I can keep to myself and sometimes it may seem that the city life is winning me over but I am a Home Girl. I wouldn't trade my Home for anything.

Home is where the heart is


xoxo
Samke
Sugar&Spices