Category: The Journey
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Keep dreaming!
I have been reading dreams of a common language by Adrienne Rich and these words, below reflected my way with a dash of Toni Morrison, are what I will keep as i close a chapter of my life, one where I finally learned to fly, though as a new chapter begins… She was not a…
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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 remembering all the ways to carry water!
I am feeling both ordinary and magic. Ordinary and magic at this crossroads where life transitions to the next. I am feeling like wandering and striding only worlds that allow me to dream as life continues and continues. The power of words, always a muse. The loss of people I hold dear, a reminder. How…
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Keep turning into your own!
I am taking this poetry thing a bit further. I came across the golden shovel way of poetry writing. It’s where you take a short poem in its entirety or a line from the poem called a striking line and create a new poem using words from the original poem. Each line in the new…
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Keep flying through words.
They say to learn to fly, a bird must first leave a nest. I have been flying through words. I have been learning to break words open, to get at their bones and deal with words as though they were air. I am also learning to find not only how words get their meaning, but…
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Keep communities!
Let us talk about community, of how people meet. How meetings lead to community. Of how we loose all that matters, the meetings, the community, when we don’t meet. Meetings make communities. Then communities impact the world. I’m in a space where meetings with the right communities matter.
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Keep a space for all ideas!
I am learning to sing a song my way. To do so through struggles and hurdles along the way. I was asked what was my turning point recently. I mentioned the moment I got the largest grant ever. But looking back. I should have answered the day I began to sing the song of my…
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Keep the life lessons of death!
On this Juneteenth day, we saw death today. Seeing the last drops of life, the grave closing in, kept us thinking about this journey through life. Will we reach the end with pride, whisper sweet nothings in the end. However you chose to go: so long Jackie. From your last thoughts to your last words.…
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Keep Father’s Day.
The thing about grace is that every time I remember our beginning, I remember angel, Muomamm. The names we gave to each other continues to lead our journey together. That angels will guide and protect us, those for whom he called his own. As complicated and intense saving lives maybe, as transformative, as insightful, as…
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Keep young people close!
A little over four years ago, a developer, my team and I were working with disappeared. We searched everywhere for him and couldn’t find me. He was young and many people told us to move on, that young people are never reliable. We knew it was unlike him but his disappearance shattered us too. We…
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Keep knowing Olisa don co-sign me!
I spent the evening working out. These words kept me going. The fact that Olisa don co-sign me for one. Then if you want to lose, bet against me. Not my words, but I am embracing it this season of my life. That and as you no dey for me, I carry my cross go…
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Keep grants as survival
Imagine being on the shoreline, crucial and alone. Imagine doing so to open a world rigidly closed. Imagine instigating unlearning, as you stimulate learning with words turned radical in the practice for freedom. The past one year I have been on a journey that I never could have imagined for myself. Two years ago, I…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 