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Keep those older and wiser than you!
When those older than you speak, they do so, not because of the sweetness of words in their mouth, but because they see something, the rest of us, those young, do not see. This new year will find me listening to those older and wiser than me. I intend to stop and listen to all…
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Keep dreams alive in 2024…
We begin again, creating again, as if without form again, from memories still somber and gray again. We begin as if a raging ocean again, covered in total darkness again, still moving as if over water again. We begin again only this time with light again. We are commanding light to still reign over us…
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Keep love still for 2023!
When this captivating year final closes, when its power comes to an end, when you are finally not daunted by its experience, when you are full of gratitude for the simple fruits it planted, then and only then will you hold the year in reverence. You will find yourself saying a decade of rosary. 5…
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Keep surrendering to life this Christmas and beyond…
When life is your friend, not your enemy or your nemesis, when you live in profound trust of the synergies within this one life you live, then you will surrender to life. You will surrender as you begin to feel life like you see death, as one wholesome entity you experience together. One you love,…
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Keep knowing Ani ka mmadu!
One year ago, we sat and watched as a people gathered on grounds we called home and prayed for us, thanked God for us, and insisted that everything good will come for us. They will never know how their prayers went on passed the grounds they prayed on through to the heavens above for a…
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Keep blooming like a rose!
When time is up, and the fruits of your labor emerge, and faded memories linger, and faces and voices creep further away, and the ripples that form disappear, leaving behind a blunt-edge sword, and something to live for, when all the truth of your days are known may nothing but stillness and enduring horizons find…
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Keep knowing your worth: part 2!
For those who want to know their worth, know that it promises you nothing but fire. You will discover fire and walk through it. Discover it burn and still pass through it. Many around you will not see the fire and will walk past you and your fire. They will walk and be blind to…
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Keep knowing that power is female!
We started this year in an inescapable cycle of suffering. We were also exhausted. Until we decided to claim some power over everything. We started to asked ourselves questions like what periods of growth have we wasted? What moments of gradual growth? Those that came unexpected and wild. Those unnamed and mild. Or what moments…
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Keep Kosisochukwu
Eyes full of grace With stares from a tiny face And the depths of new life Stayed frozen in our eyes. We have seen how Kosisochukwu Becomes Kosisochukwu So we give thanks for Kosisochukwu Give thanks for Kosisochukwu. Today, my husband and I welcomed Kosisochukwu Tobenna to the Catholic Faith. Becoming a god parent is…
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Keep being thankful!
In a large grey and blue room, a group of people stood, committed to be thankful this year. We were thankful for so many things. Life, health, friendships, people, this community will touch your soul, enter your mind and never be forgotten. They will make you remember all the ways we are thankful. All the…
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Keep my story.
What you see are my struggles. The journey through dreams too. We have soared through the fire of our imagination. Soared too into the unknown. They other day, I asked someone if they would come along for the journey. They said no, not in words but action. I let them be, knowing soon, I would…
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Keep knowing that Chinualumogu!
I have always loved his name. The idea that Chinualumogu is the perfect name for the second most ambitious year in my life. 2022 was bold but 2023 takes the cake for the most disruptive and innovative year ever. It’s of course not as stellar as 2022, Chinualumogu made complete sense if you know the…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 