Category: The Journey
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Keep knowing your soul!
I am undoing all that keeps my soul from prospering. All that keeps me buried. I am looking at the mirror to. I know my soul. I am like stars against the sky. Like galaxies bouncing through space. Becoming green as I pass through storms. I know what stirs me. I bow my heads in…
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Keep undoing
I imagine undoing, ending, the woman killing memories of girlhood, in me, unafraid, believing, in nothing, just loosening, trouble, rustling pain, embracing, love, all buried within, like snow, falling rain, liberating my mind Loving this day, I begin, opening, to you, only you, see only you can begin this I imagine, undoing. The bits and…
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Keep light for generations to come!
Imagine being described as honest, clear-eyed or simply impressive. These words were used by Toni Morrison herself to describe Lucille Clifton’s memoir ‘Generations.’ Lucille Clifton was more than a poet. The best too if I might add. She was a mother to six children and a prolific children’s book author. Her name Lucile meant light…
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Keep knowing where you stand with public health!
At the end of his book Health and Culture beyond the Western Paradigm, my doctoral advisor ended with these words: ‘To engage in a healthy culture project is to question one’s location constantly, always remembering that wherever something stand, another thing will stand beside it.’ It’s from Chinua Achebe and to him, it meant that…
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Keep imaginations
I have been writing and thinking about why we write. This time, my daughter and my son are my muse. I listened intently as she told me during dinner about her desire to start her own company, one where she would simply write and illustrate all the books she wanted to write. Currently she is…
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Keep dwelling among fine people!
Today, I dwelled among some fine people. Poets, storytellers, researchers, humans committed to the light, the beauty of our humanity. And they all glistened, smiled as they glistened. Finer than silver moons. Oozing words, delicious words, as juicy as the sweetest berries. Of ways humanity will flourish because we loved us, loved our coming together…
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Keep the joy of living.
It was Lorraine Hansberry that said once to a friend that she wished to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which to love. Therefore since she has known all of these things, she has found them to be reason enough and so she wished to…
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Keep celebrating heros like Dr. King, local heros like Dr. Mati!
I am all about light. All about celebrating those who build and sustain it. Those unafraid to give a little light, to make their light shine too. Those prepared to do their part to dispel darkness, to become a voice for the voiceless, to love as love does, choosing love or fighting for justice like…
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Keeping knowing that the heart of justice is truth-telling.
Have you ever wondered what Dr. King do today if he was alive? I imagine he would be thankful for the outpouring of love, for his purpose, for his good will, for his justice. I also imagine that he would be in awe with how everyone, old and young, are doing their part to remind…
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Keep healing our wounds!
In killing rage, bell hooks talked about the need to heal our wounds. Not to be misconstrued with moments where we survive with grace, elegance, or beauty, but rather the wounds that are often hidden or fundamentally traumatic. Living and coping with the ongoing pandemic is fundamentally traumatic and we are all not okay. I…
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Keep escaping like trees during snowfall!
We woke up this morning to snow. A winter storm has finally arrived to Saint Louis and all I want to do is sleep the day away. My kids of course are elated. They want to go outside. They want to build snowman and play snow angels. And I simply want hot tea with some…
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Keep dancing in the mind or writing for people!
Imagine taking seven days to frame the entire world. The kind of patience it would take to ensure that the stars and the moon are in the right place. All sorts of fishes or sea monsters swim the oceans. Mountains and hills are perfectly framed with volcanoes ready to erupt as they please. Having such…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 