Category: The Journey
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Keep lessons at crossroads!
A burning desire for freedom at crossroads will lead you down a path so vivid and clear. This desire will force you to stripe life to its essence and embrace all you see at crossroads. On one hand, the road you have previously walked on, crawled on too sometimes, but found yourself still walking through…
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Keep the wonders of Naija!
In Naija, or like we call it, home, we think a lot about movement, and bustling streets and buildings tall and straight as trees, and the grey skies we hang on to, everyone happy to see another day, at least there is wonder here, and magic too, for where else will you see blind men, …
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Keep connecting to your desires!
I was asked yesterday to describe soulful grants. My mind went straight to my heart. Of what use is a grant if it only knows the head, forgetting that the longest journey you will ever take is the one from your head to your heart. So my response: Grant writing is a way of connecting…
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Keep telling your story!
When stories go a distance, they become crooked. So too the story for today. It began as any other, with plans beyond time. Then life intervened and the journey turned into another moment in need for deeper reflection. We are all stories, carrying kernels of truth, mixed with untruth, all shaped as we journey along…
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Keep love!
Love so beautiful, oozes with joy. Today we witnessed love, witnessed beauty, witnessed joy, that we too professed love, and so does the moon, and souls, and people in search for love.
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Keep peace!
There is a certain kind of peace I long for these days. The kind that lets me be. Free, with no demands. No strings attached, no noise, no worries too. Just a life lived well, my way, because peace flowed like a river.
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Keep those that guide you!
It’s been over 20 years since we met and everyday seems so sterling. I am learning to recognize and respect the place where I feel so cherished and secure and in my academic life, it’s in his presence. I am able soar because he told me I could. Told me too that who was I…
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Keep knowing your strength!
When you know your inner strength, no matter how hard they try, the world will never blow your light out. Katherine Dunham.
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Keep seeing goodness!
Some words have wings, forcing you to soar when spoken. Today I saw the message in the words “see goodness” and we are certainly soaring to the skies. I kept saying I’m where I am supposed to be. Everything about today was divine that those words made my eyes see for myself how blessed I…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 