Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep scarves…
I was born with a scarf on my head. My shoulders too. Like my mother and her mother too. We were born wearing scarves, handwoven with threads, or hand-dyed with care, silent and golden. A generation of pride crowned the top of our heads with every scarf. I have worn scarves older than the day…
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Keep Nnem’s scarves…
My Nnem wears scarves that tell stories of their own. Their forms are clear. Every single scarf she has ever worn has a form and structure with colors that arise all on their own. They are what scarves need to be, so they stand erect, when tied on a woman’s head or draped on her…
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Keep the beauty of falling snow.
Outside our window, everywhere was covered in snow. The cold air and falling snow, spoke eloquently to us, promising nothing, only a reminder of how we have no business waiting time. Not today. Not when snow is falling and the skies are still as they seem. The skies are still as they seem. Our time…
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Keep what you see even if a frog!
What you see outside, typically reflects who you are inside. These days I marvel at all I see along this journey called life. For what does anyone know about who you are, without the depths of your sight. How can they feel what you feel, like when you are along the edges of a cliff,…
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Keep being confident in your worth black women in academia like red maple trees in winter!
We live, my family and I, in a village surrounded by trees. Almost all of them are naked and bare in winter. When the days are cold and the wind pushes only cold air, these trees stand confidently, only shedding dead leaves and branches unable to survive the air, they breathe. There is a red…
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Keep those older and wiser than you!
When those older than you speak, they do so, not because of the sweetness of words in their mouth, but because they see something, the rest of us, those young, do not see. This new year will find me listening to those older and wiser than me. I intend to stop and listen to all…
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Keep dreams alive in 2024…
We begin again, creating again, as if without form again, from memories still somber and gray again. We begin as if a raging ocean again, covered in total darkness again, still moving as if over water again. We begin again only this time with light again. We are commanding light to still reign over us…
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Keep love still for 2023!
When this captivating year final closes, when its power comes to an end, when you are finally not daunted by its experience, when you are full of gratitude for the simple fruits it planted, then and only then will you hold the year in reverence. You will find yourself saying a decade of rosary. 5…
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Keep surrendering to life this Christmas and beyond…
When life is your friend, not your enemy or your nemesis, when you live in profound trust of the synergies within this one life you live, then you will surrender to life. You will surrender as you begin to feel life like you see death, as one wholesome entity you experience together. One you love,…
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Keep knowing Ani ka mmadu!
One year ago, we sat and watched as a people gathered on grounds we called home and prayed for us, thanked God for us, and insisted that everything good will come for us. They will never know how their prayers went on passed the grounds they prayed on through to the heavens above for a…
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Keep this season so joyful!
They say children will grow. Once when Christmas cookies all decked in red and green are made and baked. Eyes full of joy, twelve if you are counting, will break an egg, then pour the flour and knead the butter as if they have learnt to see with their mouths full of joy. Then they…
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Keep blooming like a rose!
When time is up, and the fruits of your labor emerge, and faded memories linger, and faces and voices creep further away, and the ripples that form disappear, leaving behind a blunt-edge sword, and something to live for, when all the truth of your days are known may nothing but stillness and enduring horizons find…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 