Category: The Journey
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Keep moments of gold!
We are some of us made of gold. We pass through fire and never fold. Not when the fire was expected, the deepest kinds. We saw it, circled it with all our might, then let it burn us. If we don’t burn, we stay. If we burn, we let all the pain seep deeply within…
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Keep all the ways we prevent and end HIV for girls and women!
We spent the day remembering Hydeia Broadbent, remembering the first time we learnt about HIV, remembering lessons, if any, we remember about preventing it for ourselves and other girls and women like us. Today is National HIV/AIDS awareness day for girls and women and so we spent the day remembering all those who have paved…
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Keep Black Women!
The day begins with love. To women everywhere, especially those black and hive. Those that smile when we arrive. Those who switch tongues on overdrive. Those who blow kisses that jive. Those whose laughter we archive. Those who stay unmasked and alive. Those yearning for all the ways we thrive. Those who celebrate all the…
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Keep dreaming and dreaming again!
I begin from a space, that I hope you will one day use as your own. A space that is transitional is nature, a work in progress too. In August if 2021, we got an early morning text that stated that my sister-in law had died from cervical cancer. My memory of that day is…
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Keep what is local!
All creativity is local. I am seeing that with each passing day. All creativity as far as the eyes can see, is local. We bought a bag of Africa Star Apples today. Udara as it’s fondly called and I gladly ate the whole bag proudly as all fruits are local. What if we did the…
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Keep emerging with birds!
I took a break determined to do the only thing I could. I watched birds as they perched on bouquets of flowers, bright and colorful. I have always said if I am still, be afraid. If I rest, be equally afraid. Be still and know, be still and know. The sighting of birds, the sighting…
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Keep this bloom and blaze!
Somethings bloom and blaze on their own. Things full of boundless possibilities. A blue sea. A glowing moon. A mother’s milk. A circle of close people. Anything with a sense of endurance, will find a way to bloom and blaze all on its own. I’m in a space with the one who saves, who reminds…
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Keep this gathering of women with eyes tiny like us!
I’m inspired by the feast of women I saw the other day. Those black like me. Those that begin from the womb and continue long past a day. I know our imperfections are nothing, that our light is everything, that we gather loving those we would give our everything. I have seen where women build…
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Keep being STARS!
And so we begin. Welcome to STAR cohort 2 where to be a star, is to do work that Toni Morrison would say is beautiful, powerful, but should also work. It should have something in it that enlightens, something in it that opens doors and points the ways. Let’s Go STARS U
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Keep living beyond yourself!
I finally shared the courage award to the one who gave birth to Angie the other day. At first I was apprehensive. What would she say? Would she even approve? It’s her daughter after all and what right do I have to tell her story my way. To my surprise she cried. She kept thanking…
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Keep perspective!
We watched AFCON match today and saw our beloved country loose a game. Then we literally clutched our pearls with the SuperBowl until Kansas Chiefs won. All of this had me thinking about perspective. Failure is always inevitable with anything. So too is success and the hurdles along the way. But perspective is like a…
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Keep the fullness of life.
Remind me of how we got here, how our dreams, became reality, how fullness of life, became our life, how still the dreams moving in us, then shifted, but remained in us, as we watch time go on, and your light still stayed on, this indestructible light you gift us, as days stream into years,…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 