Category: The Journey
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Keep these beginnings!
These days I remember the way we begin. I also remember the way we die. When you have seen a life, seen it dissolve to the earth, then memories are like the air we breathe. Angie was her name. I say it in memory of her spirit, her voice, her love, her life. We are…
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Keep those who understand you!
About 2 years ago, I held a misunderstanding, with the one whose name is like mine. We didn’t speak for months, barely said hello or good bye. Then we met again, just as the sun turned around the earth, in a place where I once rested my head. We met to remember just how we…
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Keep this group so full of light!
I always like things full of light. Best when those around you are light. From an angel’s being, to a hopeful being, another angel’s soul to a future goal, from the one once called a rock, to the leaders, two, who let people lead beside them, to all of that add those who communicate exceedingly…
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Keep the cycle of grant writers!
I’m always in a circle. Always beginning just when I thought I was finished. The function, the very true function of an artist is to dance to a different beat. So goes a grant writer. We write grants because we are always drumming a new tune differently. Grants invariable rebel against what is norm. If…
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Keep being a revolution or doing what Nikki Giovanni says!
Her words were power. I lived by them. The idea for example of living militant dreams of showing folks how things should be done is at the heart of why I write here every day. Part distraction, part invitation, all a reflection that my story will always be mine, always unfold in ways that are…
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Keep your growth rings!
Picture this, a woman strange, small, very small, and hidden as if keeping a secret all to herself. Except the secret is not a secret and her ways are small and strange. Every year they say a tree full of life, adds a growth ring to the wood in its trunk, because it has to…
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Keep these days!
When I think of Crystal City, think of the people we meet, think of the lessons we learn, the stories we hear, I get restless and get up, to meet more people, learn more lessons, and hear more stories, until like our lives, things crystal shimmer everywhere. Keep these days.
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Keep being light!
If my work ever became a houseboy, allowing people to enter a party to which they had not been invited, I would stop. If I speak my mind eloquently, determined not to be distracted, yet discover that I only attract dust, I will stop. If what I do is not owned by whomever wanted to…
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Keep the process!
In the end, all things end. I’m grateful for the lessons learnt, the wisdom gained, the pain endured, the memories retained, the strength renewed, the grace restored. The past one year has been a journey. I’m learning to trust the process and thankful for those who got me from that to this. You all taught…
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Keep the thanksgiving lessons of a burning bush!
These days the comfort with cleverness of our times, whether with the speed of things instant, or the news of things social, all don’t ignite me. Rather, this morning, we begin again with grace, in thanks, with eyes burning like a bush endlessly brilliant, endlessly bright, for the warmness of these times, the love of…
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Keep tomorrow!
I like to imagine that tomorrow is for those bright, those like flame, those prepared to sparkle, those who shine. Tomorrow belongs to those young, those old too, those who long for night, those who live for day. Tomorrow belongs to those with a broad arch, those with a long fetch, those ready to hatch,…
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Keep loving you!
My dear colleague and I have this grand idea of opening up a spot that indulges everything we love. For me, my books, scarves and things. I say things because my love for things keeps growing. Sometimes it’s jewelry. Handmade kind. Other times it’s just puff puff because why not. So I love things. My…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 