Category: stories
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Keep following your path!
The insides of my thoughts, after a dizzying season of grant writing goes like this: what’s the next one? any other one? how about another one? surely there must be another one. We follow these thoughts down the path where ideas go to labor, we peek, we pry, we resolve instead to not sit and cry,…
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Keep captivating days
I am captivated by things simple like rainy days, moments gentle like kiss on your check from your child, memories eternal, like the rise after a rise, and days of delight, like pint of ice-cream with those you adore. If this 27th day, of the ninth month, of the year 2024 would be art, I…
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Keep seeing your smile!
I saw my smile the other day, saw how it made my eyes light up, saw how my lips became crooked, head tilted to the side, shoulders lean forward, all with an ease I could watch forever. So I started to see my smile more, see the way it burrowed deep within my soul, see…
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Keep love
I am remembering love, the sweet taste of pomegranate, love, a blue line on a red sky, love, children bright like stars, love, peace that surpasses all understanding… love, a poem without words, this love, love, love…
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Keep moments that glow!
Some truths are joyful, some hidden, some hurtful, some useful. The pain from moments we inhale, blurt the joy of moments we exhale. Yet still, we inhale, truth bitter, moments hurtful, as life insists on being useful. There will be moments that come full of pain, full of rain, full of all the ways you…
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Keep your name, and this harmony with your becoming!
There are three things with life I am learning help me stand. First, the idea of being human. Why are we here, now at this moment and for what do we hope for with the times we find ourselves in. The second is how will you endure. The battle is long, so what tools are…
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Keep this 4th anniversary, the one full of grace!
One of my favorite prayers begins with the word, “Hail Mary, full of grace.” If you know the next lines, for me, you would know that the lord has truly been with me. For who can go through fire, go through trials and somehow, get to the other side, oblivious to the fact that just…
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Keep who you are, proudly Igbo!
We held a New Yams Festival Today As a reminder You are not only what you believe you are You are what you are In an image Godlike I suppose Igbo Proud, truly. Keep this.
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Keep the Saint Louis Air Fair!
Every experience with art is the art of experiences. I went to the Saint Louis Air Fair today. My first time and via invitation from a friend. I left feeling amazed that at this very moment I get to live in a place where an experience with art is worth every single joy my eyes…
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Keep all the ways we last!
she spoke harsh truths today about why things never last, not because many never try but because continuing to remain, against yesterday’s hopes and tomorrow’s reactive dreams can be futile in a setting where even darkness brims with glee. progress will be slow, acting too, but still, even with sweat and some blood, a little…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 