I hated cliches, until I became one.
Birthday thoughts and musings on the first one since my mom’s passing.
Lost & Found - Live Storytelling
Keshni remembers her mother while she navigates parenting her own rebel daughter. Filmed live from Little Penn Coffeehouse, Keshni Naicker tells her true story in Lost & Found: KAMA DC’s Best Immigrant Stories - a Community Voices collaboration with Story District.
Writing your story
An interview on the Journey’s Podcast by KAMA DC where I talk about writing your story and my journey.
To be a writer, poet, or artist is to be an outsider.
“Of all the stories we tell ourselves and others, the most significant follow the words ‘I am . . .”
To be a writer, poet, or artist is to be an outsider. We give form to our experiences, creating channels and access points for others to connect into in the process. And once a thing has form, we can choose to carry it, put it down, or step beyond it. Belonging is not something we negotiate with the external world, it’s inside us….
The Mosaic of Belonging
On the fifth of December 2013, I awoke to the news that “tata Madiba”—Nelson Mandela—would no longer walk this earth. The already cold and gray Thursday morning in D.C. turned drearier as I carried my sorrow, along with my laptop and lunch, onto the metro train that would take me downtown and to work. The rush-hour train was packed with jacket and woolen hat clad commuters. As we emerged from the underground tunnel and traversed the gray Potomac River, I caught a glimpse of the Washington Memorial impaling the cloudy sky.