Category: stories
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Keep what is local!
All creativity is local. I am seeing that with each passing day. All creativity as far as the eyes can see, is local. We bought a bag of Africa Star Apples today. Udara as it’s fondly called and I gladly ate the whole bag proudly as all fruits are local. What if we did the…
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Keep all that makes your language vibrant!
I’m in the city that never sleeps. Its skies are always soothing to me. There are three main languages spoken, hundreds more if you really want to dig deeper. I sat across a girl who spoke a language that sounded like music to my ears today. I couldn’t make out anything but I listened just…
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Keep Peace!
I remember the name. My eyes were drawn to the colors. A white bird draped in blue with a round circle with a blue hole perched on its wings. I remember the name, Peace. They say it stood for peace. The bird seemed to sing with ease. The skies looked on with glee. Believing in…
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Keep love for Olisa’s birthday!
The chance to love you, to know you, to grow with you In our darkest hour Our brightest days Are the reason Why we open Like wings for you. We call you Olisa. The one we named after God. The one we used to ask for his guidance. We are afterall nothing without God. The…
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Keep love!
Love springs from somethings. Sometimes a whisper, a warm embrace, a simple card, all can pull a heart and make it leap. The idea of a day dedicated to love has always kept me alive. Partly because I remember how love came to be for me. I remember its first touch, its first kiss, its…
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Keep living beyond yourself!
I finally shared the courage award to the one who gave birth to Angie the other day. At first I was apprehensive. What would she say? Would she even approve? It’s her daughter after all and what right do I have to tell her story my way. To my surprise she cried. She kept thanking…
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Keep perspective!
We watched AFCON match today and saw our beloved country loose a game. Then we literally clutched our pearls with the SuperBowl until Kansas Chiefs won. All of this had me thinking about perspective. Failure is always inevitable with anything. So too is success and the hurdles along the way. But perspective is like a…
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Keep illuminating your presence!
You do not have to listen. You do not have to wait to hear me speak. You only have to open your eyes and let your eyes see what it sees. Tell me about hurdles, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile, the world will go on, days will go on and everyone will…
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Keep being a dream.
I am forever inspired by Langston Hughes. His poem “Hold fast to dreams” is an affirmation of sorts for my life’s work. The idea too of bringing all your dreams, another poem, inspires me. I am moved by the idea where we could do the following from another poem: “I dream a world, where all…
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Keep the cycle of dreams!
They say we are never old when it comes to the dance we know. I agree which is why I begin today with the thought: what odd dreams do you have? How have you watched the universe conspire to make them a reality? A cycle of sorts. Only this week, I spoke about a dream…
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Keep the lessons of dogs!
When dogs meet other for the first time, they stop, sniff, and acknowledge each other, in love, or in hate. When people see each other other, whether for the first or only time, they move pass each other, some in silence, some full of depths unknown, that make you wonder about the lessons of dog.
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 