THE STANDARD
LIFESTYLE
Harold’s theme for this past Sunday, “March forth”, was obtained from a joke we shared over a meal of roast pumpkin and avocado, the forbidden fruit, offered to me by Harold as punishment. Gitegi Institute of Flawed Studies found out that the avocado was the mysterious Biblical forbidden fruit.
March forth, I said, was an instruction from the calendar, as last week’s Thursday fell on the fourth of March.
But Harold, who asked me to tell him I was thirsty so he could scream “March forth”, used it to motivate the faithful.
The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams start this week, and the few candidates who attend his church needed a rallying call; so Harold had a busy day, sprinkling ‘anointing oil’ on eager faces. By the end of it all, the church reeked of paraffin, which was used in the absence of oil.