Category: stories
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Keep astonishing with your light!
Perhaps we do not want to be remembered. Perhaps we do not want to be praised either. Perhaps we desire no fame. Perhaps we choose instead to live quietly. Perhaps we prefer no one knew we existed. Perhaps we choose instead to serve the highest forces in the universe. Perhaps we choose to be unseen.…
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Keep this joyful (grantwriting) life!
If you abandon life and the world, you will find the life of the world. So says Rumi. This idea of surrender, the need to empty the glass of our desire, to know the joy of our souls, to stop looking for something out there and start with seeing from within is the reason why…
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Keep the generation who choose hope!
There is a generation whose morals may cause fear to creep in. When you see them dragging themselves into a mud of darkness, when you see them slide over snakes as if they are one, when you see them loop around together in an image that only tells the story of themselves. Don’t worry for…
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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 why you write!
These days I’m learning that even leaves on the ground have invisible wounds that are always shared with strangers. So too the words within us. They reveal us. To write increases the revelation shapes our actions. I am learning that words carry the joy, the sorrow, yet still the optimism of every writer. However tall…
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Keep the love for boys little!
It’s another day, and we are among those lucky people who get to see this day and it’s rain and the birds that lurk around grasses, on their feet, like the a red cardinal bird that hurries from one grass to another, from one branch to another, such is the life of a mother, this…
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Keep still knowing the source of your scars!
My left pinky finger hides a scar the size of a grain of rice. I barely remember it exists. Sometimes it’s better to never remember pain, to always accept being invisible even when your mark is clearly visible. Between all the lines and groves in my hand, this scars stays hidden on the sides of…
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Keep knowing that even this too shall pass!
I spent the day saying this too shall pass, because this too shall pass and when this too passes, all that would be left is this. And it’s so worth it to keep this thing we know matters, for us, for our healing and for everyone. So even if we sound like a broken record,…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 