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Keep Good Friday!
Blood and water gushed from sides where man stood as God. If life ends today, I hope our sides are full of water, full of blood, full of things that bend with light.
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Keep the universe and Steven Weitzman in mind!
There we were, standing in front of Fredrick Douglass. He stood majestic in bronze. We were stunned by his hair, his facial structure, his arm grip, his legs, his whole being. I wondered out loud who could have made these and for how long and with what materials. The universe heard me and said, look,…
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Keep smiling!
These days we are encountering the beauty of life, smiling as we sit and dream, uncovering the wonder within, letting our souls wander too, as we let our sons of color, like sun and its color, light up the dark. If there is ever a moment to love humans, as tricky and mean as we…
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Keep being still!
Happen your eyes open with delight, happen they shine with recognition for the dreams unfolding, happen they remind you how to see, what he had done, not just look but see, happen your eyes does all this but keeps you standing still without error, then at least you will learn to be still. If he…
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Keep living!
I saw an image of a woman dead and it spoke vividly to me to live. To see her dead and just her eyes to testify to her life is the mirror I needed to see and the reminder to live life for as long as life is worth living. Otherwise I too would be…
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Keep the many phases of motherhood!
All a mother needs for strength these days are in the eyes of those she birthed. For her, nothing remains the same and opening up is like Spring season, a moment when words start to speak on their own whether silently or loud. For her, the sun never goes down. The moon is like a…
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Keep dreaming together!
I saw a flock of blackbirds in the sky today. Each one flying as if together. One flew away, in the opposite direction. Another flew back as if to get it to fly in the right direction. They circled a tree over and over again, perching to rest but flying around again, until there were…
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Keep these wishes!
In the book of wishes, Eve Merriam, wished that we would learn to love darkness as well as light. She wished we would also remember that trees need roots below to grow up to the sky. So too this thing called dreams. I am learning these days to bask in moments dark as well as…
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Keep the lessons of trees!
The briefest of rain will remind of how red maple trees are trees and content, always, for not a single red maple tree you see, speaks a word of complaint, neither do they have questions nor answers to give, yet they live as though they have been told to live, with their red leaves bursting…
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Keep these thoughts
We know that anger helps, hunger for solutions too. We know that despair stiffens and joy seems for red birds far from the skies. We know these times are full of fear, these days are truly hard to bear, and even if they rule with no care, at least our hands are bare.
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 