Mueni Muli

Welcome to Bloom.

I’m Joy Mueni Muli Ntegeka, a doctor, writer, musician, and creative, in no particular order of importance on any given day.

I practice medicine and I make art. I write prescriptions and I write songs. For a long time I held these parts of myself at arm’s length from each other, unsure whether they belonged in the same sentence. Now I know they were always the same thing: curiosity and wonder, showing up in different clothes.

This blog is where I let them all into the room together. #creativescientist

Bloom is where I write about medicine and meaning, about faith, about music, about books that rearranged something in me, about my day to day musings of my sojourn and my life lived between Kenya and Uganda. You’ll find dry humour here, quite dry, actually, and real vulnerability, because I believe there is a particular kind of strength that only arrives through the willingness to be seen.

I don’t write to have it all figured out. I write because the process of putting words to things is how I understand them. And somewhere in that, I hope something lands for you too.

My words are shaped by the gospel, and I mean that not as a disclaimer but as the truest thing I can say about myself. Christ is the reason I’m not afraid to bloom where I’m planted, even when the soil feels unlikely.

So come on in. Stay a while.

Grace and peace.

Soli deo Gloria,

Joy