Category: The Journey
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Keep peace!
I retreated from the world this week. I retreated to find peace and rest. Upon my return, the infinity of chaos, pandemic lessons in vain, the fate of humanity, a cloud of gloom, piercing dark skies unimaginable reality, for old and young all have me at loss for words. Even now, Nothing, can describe, why…
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Keep a community of women!
So this must be why they call it paradise, spirit and soul connecting, listening, being together, under blue skies and palm trees, purple cactus and lemon trees, eating herb roasted whole chicken, fennel crusted sea bass, with baby kale risotto, while drinking blood orange lemon punch, and the sun set is as dazzling as can…
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Keep knowing where there is women, there is magic!
Where there is a woman there is magic. Where there is a woman, magic is there. If the moon is falling from her mouth, if the brilliance of the moon is even in her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic. Like a gentle deer, she knows her brilliance too. And a woman…
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Keep moments with God part 4!
Maybe it was the cold. I have never liked the easy wind of cold winter days. Maybe it was the place. I never understood the bewitching charms of Augusta. Maybe it was the month. I have always ignored the swiftness of February. Or maybe it was you. Now, I truly wonder if it was you.…
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Keep moments with God, part 3!
Ada Zion’s legion, gathered today, watching God, the guide among them, rejoiced in thanksgiving, giving thanks. Something about blessings. Something about people. Something about love. God, Thank you for this love.
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Keep life notes!
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 knowing what you will keep and happy birthday Audre Lorde!
I remember reading these lines from Audre Lorde years ago, in a letter she once wrote to a friend, that it is ‘out of chaos that new worlds are born.’ For the past two years, I have been moving past so many boundaries I once set for myself through words. Of course the pandemic was…
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Keep speaking love!
And when I speak of love, I speak of you. I speak of how you emptied yourself in me, one fine Friday evening and nine months later, we birthed a queen so powerful like the amazons of Dahomey, Queens of Nimo. I speak of our boys, all three of them with beauty so numberless, wisdom…
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Keep the blessings of Lucille Clifton!
When my children say your name, Lucille Clifton, I smile. How to carry water comes to mind. How to sail through this to that too. I often wonder how you lived. Lived even beyond your own understanding. A good woman, an ordinary woman, a woman whose voice is light too. I’ll never forget your Black…
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Keep knowing that anger does not reach my soul!
They call us Iwelunmor. The ones for whom anger does not reach our soul. Even if they stir up trouble. The ones for whom anger does not invade our being. Even if they hinder our dreaming. The ones for whom anger does not dwell in our mind. Even if it lasts for a moment. So…
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Keep keeping this list of things to keep!
So this is what it means, to be a woman full of lists, of things to keep, in a time of a pandemic, every single thought, sound and insane. Mother to a girl named Belle and boys who never met the one for whom anger never met his soul. Daughter to the one for whom…
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Keep sending me.
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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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 