Category: stories
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Keep but God!
To be a woman, a vast continent within, like anthills of a savannah. Owner of the drink of life. Mountains at your footstool. Breath as sweet as the earth. Voice as deep as thunder. To be a woman, full of silence and survival, unafraid to walk to the unknown, past landscape spells of bitter sun…
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Keep this peace!
You will begin again in light. You will step out beyond your comfort zone. Step out to the middle of an ocean. Step into waters that will not drown you. Your feet will stand firm remembering How to stand. When you feel like falling. When you do not know whether you will survive or how…
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Keep this Rest!
Some people want to know when it all happened? Truth is if you have been following my blog you would have seen why proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten. I have been intentional with using this space to reflect on my life in academia as well as my parenting. Nothing is…
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Keep a new school year.
Yesterday was the start of a new school year. It was also the start of Pre-K for my baby born during the early months of the pandemic. I was overwhelmed and very anxious for him. He cried and stopped and cried and stopped and eventually we were forced to leave. He seemed to take it…
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Keep dreaming still!
Those who write seldom die from pain. Survival is the only option for them. For only things that make them sane, things like light, stars, and anything else that dazzle in a full moon, will make them fertile beyond the night. These children of the sun and soil, whose bright depths rise silently still. These…
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Keep REST with your community!
They say a community that meets and let’s love be at the end, will live and live. I am in a space where finding, nurturing and keeping my community is all that matters. All last week they taught me something I simply forgot existed, the power of REST. We spend so much time working that…
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Keep REST!
Here is how we restore rest. We sit on balconies over looking oceans the colors of the sky. We dance to the glorious rhythms they play with palm trees that rustle in the air. We choose the serenity and grace from moments when skies turn gray. Remembering there is always chaos to conquer. Noise too…
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Keep knowing why you stand!
In a room where children confident and clear, soar and touch the eloquent world that emerges, there are melodies that mirror the skies eternity. They glow as if the love in us is singing to the love in us. They show happiness, glory, and beauty like the nectar of tea roses. We enter, knowing these…
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Keep words and their meanings!
Some words leave you breathless. The idea of anything being described as pathological for one. Then there are words like disrespectful, unsolicited, insulting, accusing, and anything else that personifies negativity that would leave you wondering whether evil exists in anything that spews words in this way. I am in a phase of my life where…
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Keep being little pots!
Igbo people have a saying, that when a little pot is underrated, it boils over and extinguishes the fire. Not too long ago, I watched as people looked down on me and my mentor. Granted we are different. You can never tell what we are capable of. And proverbs are the palm oil within which…
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Keep communities!
Let us talk about community, of how people meet. How meetings lead to community. Of how we loose all that matters, the meetings, the community, when we don’t meet. Meetings make communities. Then communities impact the world. I’m in a space where meetings with the right communities matter.
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Keep the music of storms!
Some storms bring music so proud they whistle across the skies, blending with nature as if the rhythms and all the chords left behind where echos of a life so powerless that all a soul could do is rest. I have been through such a storm. Been through the loud drums that left even the…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 