that you were to me and the things that I was able to learn from you!
2020 started off on a high note for me. I made great strides...I achieved some of the things that we talked about several times with you. I wished you were here for me to share them with you because you would have felt the same sense of achievement! Some of these have been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic but …I choose to push on and will not give up for you never gave up on anything.
2020 started off on a high note for me. I made great strides...I achieved some of the things that we talked about several times with you. I wished you were here for me to share them with you because you would have felt the same sense of achievement! Some of these have been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic but …I choose to push on and will not give up for you never gave up on anything.
Over the past few months of this pandemic and the lockdown, I have often wondered how you would have gone about it. I think, you would have read a lot of literature about the disease and probably learnt about the prevention strategies which you would have shared with us. I am sure you would
have followed the guidelines of the Ministry of Health and the Presidential directives to the letter. You would have stayed home for the entire duration of the lockdown…J. Maama has tried to do the same…even before the first case was identified in Uganda, she told me to tell all my siblings that we should all stay in our homes. She asked that I assure them that she would be okay and that we should not even plan to go home for Easter…never mind that Easter was still many weeks away. I remember Anthony responding…, ‘but Easter is still very far…when we get there we will decide.’ She was actually right…by the time we got to Easter, we could not even get out of our homes given the Presidential directives that were in place at the time.
Over the Easter weekend though, Maama started feeling that the house was too empty for the season! Thanks to technology, we were able to all get together for at least two hours! It was nice seeing each other and just talk without structure! Becca…said it overwhelmed her but I felt it was okay to
just talk…which made it a lot different from the structured work meetings!
Almost 3 years on…I still miss you so much. I have failed to let go of your picture, I feel like taking you off my profile will make me push you to the back of my mind. My nephew Tom…has begged me to remove the picture saying that it makes him sad but…I am not there yet!
I cannot forget to thank God for bringing us this far, for sustaining all of us especially Maama, for making her stronger every single day, for giving her a strong will to live and the strong support system which He has provided her.
Today in your memory, I will sing your favorite hymn and call to mind the many pleasant memories that I have of you. Continue resting in peace our dearest! We love you and always will.
