Hiking for Healing

01/26/2020

One day they will crack it!https://www.facebook.com/228735667216/posts/10157404477922217/

06/23/2019

The best thing about hiking, is that I discover how stronger I am. Where there is fear, I discover my strength, where there is darkness, I have discovered light, and where there is struggle, I have discovered resilience. Don't stop living, keep on keeping on.

05/28/2019

https://bbc.in/2wgKK8z

Seven have died climbing the world's highest peak in a week - more than for the whole of last year.

05/24/2019

On this day the 24th of May 2017, my wife and I walked into the OR admissions wing at the John's Hopkins University Hospital for my destiny. I was prepared and ready for an 8 hours and 40 minutes surgery. I had gone through all the preps before the process. All I remember, was joking with the anesthesiologist about how things can go wrong! He made sure I was the one and only, Felix Masi, the son of Juliana etc. Long story short, When I woke up in the ICU which looked like some Vvip room, besides the equipment, I saw my wife for the first time standing next to my bed with Dr. Battafarano (Bless him and his team). I asked my wife to give me my camera, "the big one" because there is no history without pictures. I set it up and one of the nurses clicked. I sang amazing grace and the healing songs. I remember Dr. Battafarano, saying that, the process felt like, I survived being run over by an 18Wheeler. I am a miracle, I survived the most feared life threatening disease, I am blessed and highly favored. Credit: Gita ClaassenGita.

05/07/2019

Gratitude to all the nurses and caregivers out there! Bless you!

05/01/2019

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5cc9c435e4b0d123954d4674?utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_source=main_fb&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages

The "Jeopardy!" host bared his soul on "Good Morning America."

04/19/2019

Don't stop challenging your limits! What a beautiful hike this morning with amazing friends! Peace and Love y'all!

04/01/2019

Going back home last week brought mixed emotions, I tried to keep it private and go home unannounced but again remembered that I live far and it’s been long since I was home and given that many friends and family were looking forward to “a homecoming” after receiving my lottery or my miracle☺.

Growing up in a community or “low income neighborhood” or “ghetto” as they call it (They call it ghetto, we call it home), a place I called home before making a mark in the media. A platform that has kept me around great souls, family, friends, champions and global leaders world over, and exposed me to opportunities that I cannot exchange for anything. Things may have changed when I packed my bags and dared to go into the unknown. I first took the risk and boarded a bus from Nairobi to DR Congo, via Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi and then crossed over to Eastern Congo via Chibitoke in the midst of chaos finding myself between rebels, peacekeepers and refugees. I needed to tick the box of having covered war in order to be accredited as a foreign correspondence.

Walking out of mainstream media was probably the best thing I ever did, thanks to my brother from another mother, DBK for giving me hope to act on my intuition and acting against the fear of norm.

Dear folks, when you start changing and walking differently or refusing to conform to the society by living independently, you will notice the numbers of your social circles changing or reducing. I am grateful for friends that remained close despite the distance; I have also made so many friends and friendship that will have everlasting effect in my life.

Returning home last week with my family last after surviving the world’s deadliest disease like cancer brought up mixed emotions. Unlike previous visits, a lot of things had changed, I had changed (embracing a new normal me), I had survived or I was now a survivor but NOT a victim. Folks, the hidden fear on my aunts’ faces was evident. My aunts’ now in their 60s and 70s had this fear from their voices that there was something different and that, this was the last time I was visiting to see them and maybe saying “Goodbye” They know too well that once one has cancer, they don’t live or survive and then die! It’s okay to be afraid, but I promised my relatives that all is well and that I am doing what I love doing and will be back to visit again.

Dear friends and family, I’m probably not alone in feeling this way, one thing I have learned when going through adversity, is that you got the power within you and all that matters when facing challenges or life threatening illness, never to give up! Don’t be immobilized by fear. The bigger picture is that we all go through challenges or pain on deferent levels but just remember that you are a child of God and we are all passengers on this planet.

I know a lot of things happen in life including scary things but here is my take, what would your life be like if you decided to give up your fears? What would life be like if you decided NOT to care about what people thought you? Life is too short and unpredictable, you are here today, and you are gone tomorrow. I could go on and on but let me first forward. What happened yesterday, does not matter, what matters is how I deal with what happens tomorrow. I hope to put together all this in my yet to be published book, but let me leave you with my favorite prayer that I said everyday when I was “fighting in hell” God, grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change and courage to change the things I can. and !

03/07/2019

Longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer but says he plans to beat the disease because, as he joked in Wednesday's announcement, he still has three years left on his contract.

03/04/2019

https://womenintheworld.com/2016/01/09/black-female-physicist-pioneers-technology-that-kills-cancer-cells-with-lasers/?fbclid=IwAR2BQsegahYobMpdJOwYjIvJ29bfT8_YhWtL_obnVVgwq4ip6gFPqnI41Kw

Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is one of fewer than 100 black female physicists in the country, and the recent winner of $1.1 million grant to further develop a technology she’s pioneered that uses…

02/06/2019

Beautiful piece by my friend and one of the strongest persons I know from Kenya! https://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/lifestyle/Cafe-that-serves-love-snacks-and-doctors-advice/1214-4963146-i0m5eq/index.htm

The Cancer Café is held once a month, every second Tuesday of the month.

01/30/2019

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2019/01/29/israeli-scientists-say-they-will-have-a-complete-cure-for-cancer-within-a-year/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie/

“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, chairman of the board of Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi).