Category: The Journey
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Keep knowing you are already strong!
I am in love with Nikita Gill’s Where Hope Comes From. It’s my go to guide for healing and light. And her poem How to be Strong is one of my favorites. There are no rules when you are already strong. Your strength is within you, always no matter the obstacles you face. The idea…
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Keep women!
Women have never been the first nor the only group who struggle for inherent rights like freedom of choice. The fight still continues and worth participating in even if the outcomes of such participation are never known by each generation. Yesterdays ruling by the court is another reminder that we have miles ahead to go…
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Keep knowing that false foundations never last!
Symptoms cannot disappear until the cause is cured. That’s what Zora Neale Hurston once noted when she asked why be crazy for democracy. The symptoms of any decision to overturn abortions will not disappear until the reasons are first addressed. Abortion isn’t illegal. It never has been, not now or never. What they did was…
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Keep places accessible
Some places are inaccessible. For those with heads like velvet blackness, skins smooth like the color night. Some places are inaccessible. For those with eyes darkly clear, those who look the sun in the face, unblinded. Some places are inaccessible. For names wrapped with African-ness like a shawl, names like Olisadubem, or the ones for…
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Keep Fathers!
I wonder on days like today, how we have made you feel through the years. Did we make you smile? Did we keep you hopeful? Or where we full of stress, full of denials for a freedom you truly derserve. I see that with each passing day, we made your eyes stay wide open. Sure…
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Keep LIGHT festival and your creation story!
Our ancestors are our first audience. Christell Roach reminded me of this yesterday. They have stories long forgotten and must be told by us their legacy that remain. So here is my attempt with that. I have tried to understand my creation story. Tried to know on whose shoulders I stand. My father’s side has…
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Keep Light!
Welcome to LIGHT. Welcome to the transformative force we call LIGHT. Welcome to its flame Welcome to its fire Welcome to its ray Welcome to its shine Welcome to its spark Welcome to its utter brilliance, Welcome to its radiant reflection Welcome simply to a day we hope to clarify that the public in a…
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Keep moving past your fears!
I met fear this past week. Danced around in its oasis. For once, it left me without words. Instead, the words were painstakingly put together as a grant. I spent this week writing what maybe the greatest grant ever written. I know I say this a lot. All my grants are like blue skies on…
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Keep journeys through timel
I went to Bamileke Kingdom today. It was of course at Musee Quai Branly. But honestly, I went on a journey to ancestors and beyond. So much to tell but for now, I learnt about beads and cowries today. Their connections to queens, and all things powerful and of value. I learnt about how their…
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Keep being full
Pregnant, to be full of meaning, revealing, loaded, heavy, charged, abundant, hopeful, fruitful, productive, all of this and more defined the day I had today. From my dearest Ritamae to Bastille, Black Pharaoh at the Lourve to UNESCO, Onyinye to #27 rue Claude Tiller, the experience I had with Belle, took me to the core…
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Keep moments long forgotten!
I find myself spurred to relieve moments long forgotten with you. Day and night in June in Paris seems like eternity with you. Like resting underneath canopy trees at Bercy gardens with you. Or running our hands through silver-colored birch trees with you. Reuilly Diderot, Avenue Daumesnil may sound strange to you. But they hold…
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Keep first memories
Nearly 10 years ago this week, I embarked on a journey that changed my life. It was grounded in love. The kind that liberated your heart to do anything. My life has become radiant, joyful, light, all because I found love. It’s this love that I seek to speak about this week, to awaken my…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 