Category: stories
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Keep this ease!
The silence you feel, if in a quiet lovely space, if surrounded but love, if with a steady ease that makes leaves wild is a poem. Taste and see how it begins, how it feels.
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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 knowing your scars!
And what will you do today. My soul wondered out loud ever since we signed up to speak. And how will you celebrate the connections? Art and headwraps, you, motherhood, health and life. This is trivial, simple, we are all these things, and the connections are simple. No doubt today is here. There will be…
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Keep knowing their defeat is eminent.
When your existence is an accomplished fact, and your way of seeing things is the norm, then even if terminated, you are powerful and should still go forth staking your rightful claim as leaders of tomorrow even if today seems bleak. No need being a shadow of who you are. No falling into their trap of…
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Keep faith!
If faith is a door, if it swings open, wide, or not, or just a little opening, then at least light will pass through. And where there is light, there is no darkness, not even a speck. So even in these times, may your faith still be like a door. I spent the weekend surrounded…
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Keep standing with science!
Eliminating health-related grants like, some in the middle of clinical trials like the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network is not only unethical, but one of the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. A nation, free, confident and proud in all of stands for, doesn’t reject science on the basis of ideology, doesn’t eject…
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Keep writing!
Some days will keep you numb, break your heart, make you to wish this trauma would end, all while still hoping for the best. The last two days, I have felt like a ship drowning. The water is rising and rising and we see it and see ourselves drowning. Trying to be hopeful is hard.…
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Keep home!
When you get home, stop and stare, at nothing, at everything, men crouched working, lorries full driving, birds, four being painted in green and gold, then endless arrays of cars and buses and motorcycles bustling back and forth somewhere, anywhere, like rain failing on your head. When you get home, stop and stare, then begin…
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Keep Onyelo!
I tell a story of a name, Onyelo always for four reasons. First the meaning. Second, the memory, third, the meditation, fourth to be naked. When I’m done, I remember why stories matter. Ben Okri would say for several reasons including this two things: Good stories raise consciousness, lifts hearts. They also point a way,…
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Keep serving!
The power hidden in serving, how it may make you look small, like a speck, as if feeble, like a candle, all of this, plus, limited time, like a river flowing away, are the reasons to serve. Plus even if you don’t see the river, even if it’s directions, whether up or down, left or…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 