{"id":279,"date":"2025-08-15T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jupiterx.artbees.net\/writer-blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:55:51","slug":"keyboard-or-pen-which-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/florencekatono.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Mint Memories of Pleasant View"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"279\" class=\"elementor elementor-279\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ccbdf4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0ccbdf4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4863f83 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"4863f83\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/florencekatono.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-01-at-3.56.19-PM.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1339\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3283fc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f3283fc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-770e0c0 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"770e0c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInRight&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mint Memories of Pleasant View<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27189ab elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"27189ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc4e6d3 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bc4e6d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>First time visitors, please stand up. One of the ministers called. I rose beside Jane half-smiling, half-hoping it wouldn\u2019t be too dramatic. But this was America, drama is part of their being.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ff3516 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ff3516\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A beautiful welcome song was sang to me by the choir. I stood there wrapped in awe.They reminded me of St.Agnes where we sang to guests overly recited songs whose meaning we barely understood. Even then, the gesture is very warm and welcoming.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2304d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c2304d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Welcome to pleasant view. <br \/>The biggest little Church in town.<br \/>Our doors always swing on welcome hinges<br \/>We seek the unsought, bring the unbrought, catch the uncaught, teach the untaught.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f65e4a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f65e4a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Welcome, this is pleasant view church&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>We are family, <br \/>We love Jesus, oh yes we do&#8230;.the choir chorused in highly spirited notes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1c00a88 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1c00a88\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c80f63b\" data-id=\"c80f63b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e2deba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9e2deba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Welcome, this is pleasant view church&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><br \/><strong>We are family, <\/strong><br \/><strong>We love Jesus, oh yes we do&#8230;.the choir chorused in highly spirited notes.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5839911 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5839911\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A church named after aesthetics, a pleasant view not overpromising statements like Miracle-fire-healing- poverty and ancestral-diseases-International like many of my mother&#8217;s churches. Outside, white hydrangeas flirted with hot pink blooms along the brick brown wall. I had taken photos earlier, during a sun break between Bible class and the main service. The flowers, like the church, did not shout, they were simply pleasant!<\/p>\n<p>Keeping up with Jane who is nearly twice my age seems harder than I imagined. Jane is the sister to George&#8217;s wife BJ. GA and BJ my loving hosts in Kentucky. Unlike BJ who speaks with a gentleness and softness of the early morning Kentucky breeze, Jane speaks faster than a second hand. Her speak sounds like DMX and Missy Elliot in a colabo. Even in black heels, she is still walking faster than me. BJ tells me that she is a retired police officer which explains the inquisition in her tone when she asks about Africa. Like many others, Africa is spoken of generally like a small village where people speak one language, have one king and eat cassava as their staple food. &#8221; I want to come to Africa&#8221; and as you guessed, my next question &#8220;which part?&#8221;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c8229b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c8229b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I have attended this church since I was 5 years old, my mother used to bring us here. She speaks of her mother with longing fondness like BJ when she says <br \/>&#8220;My mother was so kind to us. If she would have a chicken, we would have half of that too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I served as a Treasurer for 23 years until I decided it was time to take a break. Jane continues the tale.<br \/>My first born is now 53 years old.<br \/>We have had three ministers and changed location three times.<\/p>\n<p>The new location is a spectacle, pleasant in many ways but it sounds underwhelming for a church to be named after a view and not what it stands for.<\/p>\n<p>Jane sounds like a historical, kasangwawo and it shows in the way she is greated by both young and old folks, with adoration and respect.<\/p>\n<p>The bible class teaching about patience was interactive. We should not judge. Jane shouted the loudest Amen. She forgot quickly the unsolicited judgment she had passed the night before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does the colour purple mean in African? A question that seemed heavier than the words it carried with accusatory undertones.<\/p>\n<p>My neighbor painted his house purple. <br \/>He just returned from Africa. <br \/>I was wondering the meaning of the colour purple in African.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e777b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8e777b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I had seen vomit green, egg yolk yellow, ocean blue houses in her neighborhood when we visited with BJ. Her own windows were painted red, the colour of fresh blood.<\/p>\n<p>Why was she was loosing peace over someone else&#8217;s house painted purple?<\/p>\n<p>I had dismissed the question the same way I have dismissed many times; do you have giraffes in your airport?<\/p>\n<p>Be slow to anger slow to speak, the Deacon repeated in an American accent. Had he heard the conversation in my head?<\/p>\n<p>This is Florence, she is visiting from Uganda.<br \/>Jane introduced me to the church family, her tone sounding more showy than informational.<\/p>\n<p>The women are dressed in &#8220;Sunday best&#8221; silk dresses, sequined denim, blue shirts punctuated with blue lipstick, colourful shoes and matching jewels. Most men kept it simple in casual attire unlike the men at my church frowning in matching bitenges their wives forced them to wear.<\/p>\n<p>Clothes like religion are experienced differently. Some like Daddy Flo (R.I.P) and me prefer to pray in silence sometimes writing letters to God when words and emotions overwhelm. Silent prayers to a silently listening God. Mummy Flo and Pleasant View brethren shout their souls out as if God was slightly hard of hearing.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a49fb92 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a49fb92\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>When we sat down for the main service<br \/>Jane placed four white round mints in my palm.<br \/>I smiled at her, a smile of gratitude.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>&#8220;I thought we were NOT allowed to eat,&#8221; I whispered to her, the sound of the piano and other instruments overpowering my whisper. 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