Category: The Journey
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Keep this peace!
We could have been the sun, brilliant, gazing, stopping to reflect at our own being. Instead we are like hail, wandering, confused, as to whether to rain or hail. What follows though is peace. Always beautiful peace now that everything is in place These days I say welcome to Peace, deep inner peace.
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Keep 4 youth by youth (4yby) and its approach to innovative youth-driven research!
Research for me these days begins from a place of experience and deep thought, innovation too. Almost six years ago, I embarked on a research experience that changed my life. I was coming off a streak of research proposals that failed tremendously as grants and losing sight of what my sheer purpose in life and…
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Keep home!
when I feel lost, i like to go home, to where the skies are grey, warm and smile. i’ll stand in the room where mama died, pray too where Papa slept. she sang of ways to surrender all. he did as well. i mentioned earlier that i feel lost at times. yet whenever i’m unsure…
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Keep knowing your worth!
For so long, I have carried stories within me that these days I gladly give it birth, give it earth, give it all that lets me speak of its worth. See we have always known stars outline our worth, known to pay homage to the earth, and we know the reasons we cried at birth. Though our…
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Keep remembering Papa!
I remember these days, like a woman in labor, pain at the thought of pushing, but grace at the sound of new beginnings. Death has a way of reminding you to begin. New chapters, new stories, new life without those who once gave life. If this is a reminder, then Papa thank you for piercing…
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Keep moments at the ocean!
Lord give me days so every morning will begin with eyes that greet oceans, eyes that love the ease of peaceful waters, eyes that emerge from time spent in love near soulful waves, eyes that dwell in depths of never ending illumination at the ocean. If nothing else let me at least keep these moments…
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Keep being mist!
Being mist, I see that I may have to obscure understanding, drizzle like fine rain, enlist all fog, till they hear me roar.
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Keep love!
listen, keep this where you keep all those things that matter, we have always loved love. listen we have been hard, direct, tired, mad. but always in all ways, we loved love. loved each other, loved through fire, loved like blood, keep this. Lucile Clifton is forever a muse, a teacher and fine example of…
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Keep this Bright Star!
I love balance with life. Where something stands, Achebe once noted, something else will stand beside it. I’m a researcher, a professor of medicine, a public health scientist and one focused on sustaining evidence based interventions in resource limited settings. It’s my head. I am also a mother, a wife, Onyelo’s Isi-baby, a sister, a…
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Keep this metaphor!
I was asked to describe myself yesterday, I said I am storyteller. Everything I do begins from a place of stories. I am in the process of beginning, becoming too, and stories, like metaphors are leading. Then I proceeded to break and empty myself, my dreams to strangers I was meeting for the first time.…
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Keep grace!
I begged my bones to be kind to me. They remembered yesterday and praised tomorrow. How will we stay the same they said. Now that we know the meaning of grace. So we let them drown as if in a pool of never ending water, as if in a sea of roaring waves, knowing they…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 