Category: stories
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Keep the hope and stillness you see with Eastern pinecones.
They say there are no finer tree with roots firmly planted, with evergreen needles and pinecone, and the praise of wild birds and wild air, like the Eastern pinecone, with it stillness and clarity like the passing wind. Hope is in its pinecone, wild like air, wild like birds gliding across the skies. We went…
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Keep embracing all of you!
I am the product of a complex system, but a producer of my own reality. For the past 4 years, I have used this space to tell my own story of this reality. Each time you see me, I promise, you will see something different, like a kaleidoscope. Take today, not only did I create…
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Keep surrendering as you balance work and life!
In the process of identifying new team members for our ever expanding team, I was asked a poignant question that made me pause a bit. Specifically the interviewee asked: How do I balance work and life obligations? I paused mainly because I thought I wasn’t the one being interviewed. I also paused because the question…
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Keep change!
We accept change without reason, for good or bad or wise. We accept it even if we never understand. We accept it when questions still remain. Like drops of rain, that fall unrehearsed, like a fragrance that clings to air, like joy that evolves over time, we accept change, day by day like the silence…
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Keep the days of Temi
Things are clear. Things are starting to fall in place with grace like a gazelle. We heard of dreams, those full of shields for communities, those steady and easy. Those of hero’s, those unboxed, many with substance and hue, playlets and blues. Now, our dreams boom, they do so with the wind, do so as…
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Keep tomorrow’s dreams!
We sat and watched the start of what can only be described as divine. While I am slowly discerning a lot about life these days, to see possibilities, dreams fulfilled, those in the Illuminating phase keeps me humble. When we decided to carry out our latest project as a mega designathon, I thought, perhaps I…
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Keep this view of the world!
I read an article entitled “a very narrow view of the world” by Dr. Sandro Galea that made me ponder about my role working to study health. Over Easter dinner, I was asked what i did for work and the descriptions kept changing until my soul settled with the words, “I am in service to…
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Keep the memories of two women this Easter Sunday!
Women will be there again and again. Every time the story is told. They were there that Sunday morning when death rose like flames. There was a tomb, they looked at it. They saw the earth quake. And a stone rolled away. Pictures form and remain in my head. Of two women who looked on.…
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Keep the lessons of Good Friday!
I have gathered my pain, the abundance of it all, into an old rugged cross, my father, my grandmother, my uncles, my aunties, my nephew, my jobs, my innocence, my loss, plus Angie, all have come together, like a wreath, with the endless abundance on a cross, all hailing the depths of the pain, where…
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Keep this stream of consciousness named Isioma!
To survive, first begin. Preserve, do whatever it takes to lift yourself, free yourself from anything that is not in your name. What is your name. Who named you. When did they name you. Why did they name you. All this talk of naming began before anyone and anything framed you. They are like a…
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Keep this peace!
Today I will write the most low esteem lines ever spoken. Write for example, ‘I am confident and not my fault you mistake my confidence for something else.’ The winds will blow and eventually a day will force me to rewrite the lines as this. “No one who knows they are confident speaks loud. The…
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Keep dreams heavy.
That time I thought tough times last, I went closer to the edge without falling over. Surely God had a hand in this as well as Papa and mama Ocha and of course the one named Onyelo. So, I stood and my stance as the one with the golden hair said, is like no other.…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 