Category: The Journey
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Keep all the ways you “light your path.”
see women invisible, like your grandmother, are like light in the path, doves on a rock hill, with soft extravagant scars, across the soles of their feet. see the steps she took, across slippery water, it was her, that first heard birds calling, palm trees rustling, a woman by the river singing, children crying, not…
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Keep a plan!
Imagine if you sat in a room full of young people, what would you say, how would you begin. I sat in a room full of young people yesterday and saw myself in their eyes. Their minds were open and ready to learn. I began with these words from my mother “Enter to learn, depart…
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Keep all the ways you begin!
we are all driven by stories, possibilities within, the hopeless rampages of pain, or the stillness of morning dews, all of which are both life and writing. how we begin is all that matters so long as we begin.
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Keep knowing you are enough!
if near angry oceans, roaring waterfalls, vicious waves or crying rivers, like a deer, thirsty, stand and drink in praise. what eyes see, lips taste are enough!
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Keep all things you love
I write this. Not for you who fight to write your own words…but you who neither fear nor fight. I write this reminding you always to choose you. The world seems vast. It can also be remote and unfamiliar. But love for yourself will win and win.
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Keep ordinary moments
Despite the skies being grey, we drive up the street to the place where it all began. Seven of us in a white bus, driving every morning to the place where anyone can lead change. There is an ostrich dressed to blend with grass. A giant head smiling as we drive pass every day. Meat…
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Keep celebrating the one known as Onyelo!
Love is as love does and when love begins with Nnem you will give life love. The light of love is in the one everyone calls Nnem. Onyelo. The impossible being whose being is as secure as the clouds in the sky. Her love is always there, always loving, always letting the love within us…
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Keep walking!
Lucille Clifton once noted that ‘the surest failure is the unattempted walk.’ It was part of her poem entitled ‘Questions and answers.’ I am keeping this here because I have been walking through a path that feels so difficult that all I can keep doing is walking. So many times I wanted to quit. So…
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Keep those that are there always!
find and keep those that talk to you like roses that bloom those whose words are thin as wire whose depths like mirrors that unveil whose proverbs like birds that soar whose care divine like pearls whose presence like mines of treasures whose chorus fine like crystal whose counsel solid like roots whose direction lead…
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Keep ending cervical and liver cancer deaths!
When my Papa died, I wanted to die with him. He was the first man I loved, the first man who loved me just as I am, the first man who helped cement storytelling in me, the first man who reminded me always of my name. His death was the second death of a close…
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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 simple things.
It was simple to begin, simple to set a date, make a plan, let each other lead, keep things simple. The new year was beginning, all things in the beginning seem simple. Set a date, make a plan, listen, learn, see as they lead. What is not simple: four diseases in one, four conditions in…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 