Category: The Journey
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Keep sending me again!
To see him. To see him high and exalted. To marvel at the throne, the robe, the really long robe filling up the temple. To see angels with wings, six wings, two covering their faces, two covering their feet, two for flying. To hear angels calling one another, singing holy, and the whole earth full…
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Keep life notes again!
I am not quick to describe for myself whether life is this or that. There are so many different ways to live life. Many different ways to make it your own out of something much deeper than anything that you can describe. Sometimes you will fail. Sometimes you will succeed. But life keeps going, almost…
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Keep my old 5th avenue!
Today, I walked through streets that framed me, streets like my old 5th avenue, my old house 9, my old Festac town, my old Festac roads, my old Nazareth school, my old Agboju market, my old suya spot, my old stomping grounds, my old joy. Hibiscus flowers are gone. Aloe Vera too. But what will…
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Keep the Nigerian youth in mind as leaders and partners!
I imagine young people can be partners, leaders too with health interventions. I imagine they can come up with strategies that matter for themselves and other young people. I imagine that if we give them an opportunity, not just as beneficiaries of health programs, that they will surprise you, wow you too. We have spent…
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Keep the sweetness of life!
I am basking in the words of Audre Lorde these days. In her short essay oh how she intended to live the rest of her life while battling liver cancer, she shared the following I will keep forever: ‘I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness…
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Keep Lagos!
To be born and raised, to remember and relive the sights and sounds, plus grey skies and dusty air. Then to inhale the sense and exhale the stupidity, to be reminded of why and when, plus why again, is to accept the sigh everyone knows so well. Lagos, Lagos. Seeing you, your place, the people,…
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Keep beginnings filled with failures!
Let them say, you did it your way. You failed and failed. You stood too and stood. You withstood all that fear had in store, down to the last syllable. Still, you weathered the storm. Danced through fire. Circled back to beginnings full of failures and pain. Still you worked. You rose up early and…
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Keep remembering Papa!
I remember these days, like a woman in labor, pain at the thought of pushing, but joy rattling all my being. Sounds pierceing through. Ah, the sound of life, unforgettable. Like you, Papa, my forever love. Rereading your letters. A blessing. Every single word in place. Near my heart. You will always remain. You are…
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Keep the heavenly sight of belladonna lily!
Wild flowers are everywhere. Like me, a woman, full, in bloom. Come soil or rock, I grow, oblivious to the softness or hardness of the other. Life knows me well. I am persistent with all the soil and rock I meet like a Bella Donna Lilly. I was greeted by these large lily like flowers…
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Keep peace!
There is a certain kind of peace I long for these days. The kind that lets me be. Free, with no demands. No strings attached, no noise, no worries too. Just a life lived well, my way, because peace flowed like a river.
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Keep scars!
All my life, I have lived with a scar. Not a big one. Just one I rarely forget. We have lived together, all my life. Learning, though silent, the meaning of things, people, voices, ideas, I dare not forget. Those imprinted forever, still hopeful for too much hope. I have also been told different stories…
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Keep growing fully and beautifully!
There is a kind of peace that flows when you grow fully and beautifully. I am finding that peace for myself with each passing day. It’s in the morning sun, the one that peaks through my window right before 6 am to let me know a new day has begun. It’s in the steps I…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 