Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor

I am intentionally busy this year. Intentionally cutting myself of things that do not serve me. If I am quiet, if I am so quiet that a pin drops, know it’s not you but me. I’m learning that how we see ourselves, you and me and whatever bridge that is between us depends on us never forgetting all who have walked on the bridge. For me, it’s my own people. My mentor, their mentors, all the hunger that defined them, defines me. So if my hunger may seem like a hindrance to you, it is intentional by design. There will be days when we stand, days too when we need help, whether we stand or need help, we will learn how to see ourselves, whether on this bridge or not, we will learn how to be ourselves.

I expect many to ignore me. It’s 2025. I expect it and yet when it happens, it feels different but the same that I am learning to lean into it. Trust it for what it brings…