Annotations in Time

The Fellowship of The Unbelonging

*(I was going to share a different post but this is the one I landed on following an unexpected, life giving conversation.

13 hrs ago • Wambura

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April 2026

On Becoming a River

If there’s a cardinal rule for Kenyan theatre aficionados in the 21st century, it is this: if you are in Nairobi and Too Early For Birds is staging a…

Apr 24 • Wambura

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The List Things

I have vivid recollection of an evening well spent by the banks of the Nile in Cairo a few years ago.

Apr 9 • Wambura

Choosing Hope in a Jaded Age: On Allen Levi’s Theo of Golden

Providence dictated that I should read Allen Levi’s Theo of Golden the week after I read George Orwell’s 1984, a serendipitous albeit arbitrary…

Apr 2 • Wambura

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March 2026

What is That in Your Hand

I’ve been thinking about what it means to walk in the fullness of the particular graces you have been endowed with.Thank you for reading Annotations in…

Mar 20 • Wambura

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Frictionology: The Cost of a Frictionless Life

Frictionology (n.) 1.

Mar 12 • Wambura

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February 2026

Encounters With Excellence

Recently a friend led me down a narrow spiral staircase and into the crypt of St Martin-in-the Fields Church at Trafalgar Square, landing us in a bright…

Feb 27 • Wambura

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A Meditation on Being Known

So let’s begin with something out of left field: I am a big fan of Steph Curry, and the Golden State Warriors.

Feb 21 • Wambura

Work Worth Doing

Conversations regarding the place of work in our lives have become decidedly more fraught in this age of the commoditisation of AI.

Feb 15 • Wambura

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An Ongoing Experiment in Living Large

(This is Chapter II of the Living Large Chronicles.

Feb 6 • Wambura

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January 2026

The Literary Trojan Horse: How Fiction Smuggles the Truth Past our Defences

I have an agenda today.

Jan 30 • Wambura

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Thinking About Friendship With Philosophers

Christian, Pop & Classical, They Have Something to Say

Jan 22 • Wambura

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