Category: stories
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Keep the gift of sight!
While I started to write to celebrate a new found love for sight, the winds outside my window started to sing. Some of their tunes were loud, almost like the sound of a plane passing by, then some were slow, almost like a clock ticking by. So I closed my eyes and heard sounds that…
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Keep the water you drink!
My mother’s favorite saying for everything concerning life is that the water you will drink will never pass you by. Today, I drank some heavenly water and when I was done, I called Nnem. Of course she said the same thing again that all I can say is keep those whose only goals are to…
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Keep ideas of abundance!
Two key takeaways for today: 1) Abundance is my birthright, dwell in it. 2) For in alignment, abundance is you. That’s all and welcome to our most abundant year.
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Keep the heavenly sounds of Roberta Flack!
Imagine the sound of velvet melting, the thought of a human kindness day, the desire to understand one another, even if it kills us softly, even if we wonder where is the love. Such was the power and charisma of Roberta Flack and though the world may have lost one of the most underrated artist…
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Keep all the ways you flare, fail, then flare again!
I choose to flare, choose sunrise, and anything else the sky brings. I choose rain failing out of the hands of God, choose still the skies afterwards, the trees and all it shuffles, the beetles burrowing deep into the earth, and little boys who voice sound like the cadence of mockingbirds. I choose all these…
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Keep the art of grant writing!
I am giving myself permission to write grants that do not depend on anyone’s liking them, because what I want to do is write better. A grant writer does not always write in the ways others wish. The grant writer has to solve certain kinds of problems in writing. The way in which I handle…
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Keep days of love!
And this is what love is: the sounds of a new born this 20th day of February, the same day four years ago, water rained down from above, same day our body began a journey to healing, still the day udara filled our heart with joy, this day we saw colors, wild, orange and full.…
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Keep, keep, your stories!
Some of us have been blessed or cursed to see beyond ourselves. Our only mercy is memory, but our regret is hell. Sometimes you don’t survive whole, sometimes you survive in parts. The key is the attempt and the surrender to memories that help you see beyond yourself. I am in a space where storytelling…
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Keep these days!
Days have minds of their own. Some days I’ll sit and listen as children sing, play, fight, then sing again. Other days, I’ll watch as they live peacefully, teaching the power of love, with blankets draped around their bodies. These days even as we wear this shadow called life, I hope to always to watch,…
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Keep your name!
If you ask, I’ll say freedom, dreams, failure, perseverance, love, community, are the reasons why I do it, give names to the vision, my papa and Onyelo, plus mama, saw when they first named me, framed me, for things good.
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Keep eyes open!
We are taking the best dreams, and the best ideas, and a girl whose mama’s name is Onyelo to open eyes and her grandma who knew Onyelo to tender carefully this little light of hers and here she comes, isioma, an Onicha-ugbo treasure, Celestine’s Obi and may the art in the love that framed you,…
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Keep these STARS who know there are no rules!
These days we see all rules can be broken. Institutions broken. Though we wondered how they would apply the rules, we watched as they applied the rules. Our STARS came brilliant, bright, knowing these are different times, uncertain ones, but their time. We left fully bright, in awe of their brilliance. These may be uncertain…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 