Category: The Journey
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Keep quarters with Dr. Maya Angelou.
Dr. Maya Angelou is on the quarter. The first black woman to be featured. That she continues to live beyond her life is my keep for today. May we all find ways to outlive our lives. Ways that allow us and our legacy to shine, long after we are gone. I imagine this is what…
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Keep thanks and grace for frontline workers!
I love thank you cards. I love to read them. Love to see them. Love the humanity inherent in them. I especially love when they come from strangers. My husband gets them all the time. He knows how much I love to see them too. This time, the stranger was more than gracious, so much…
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Keep coming!
Isioma, You come gliding through this Saint Louis blues, on a cold Sunday morning, frigid and clear. You come walking through icy paths patiently gliding through forests deep as your walk fearlessly to the unknown. You come tested by fire like gold and silver and all precious jewel formed by fire. You come leaning not…
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Keep breathing!
The plans for this year was light. I planned to walk through flames, to risk the fires that burn, even in the cold, just so I get to the forest of light within. That was the new year plan. In one week, I have been informed by the year that this one will be a…
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Keep a gathering of ambitious mothers!
We are back in full work mode. I am tired already. I long for rest. Doing nothing for a while is truly healing for the soul. Something I never knew I needed until I was forced to not work. But since I returned this week, just seeing my inbox has been overwhelming. I decided to…
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Keep knowing you are your best thing!
“You are your best thing.” This line Toni Morrison used in her book Beloved is a gentle reminder to you, to me. I am my best thing. I am. That’s all.
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Keep escaping with words!
I want to be that no ordinary kind of woman that meets herself every time through words. To remind her, that because of words, we can survive, live, love, pray, as we escape the unthinkable. These are cold days, but words can lead out to our breakout as we learn what life is. So if…
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Keep an ambitious year!
How do we approach the complexities of ourselves fearlessly? How do we do it whether as a mother, a writer, a wife, a sister or a friend, fearlessly? How do we uncover our untapped power fearlessly? How do we accept all our tensions or even our chaos fearlessly? Yet still somehow, unleash our ambitions fearlessly?…
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Keep the blessings of a new year!
Dear New Year, What to make of thee, from all who seek your new? This time, our hunger grows day by day. For paths our feet are prepared to walk through. This rich promise for new the morning sun will not betray. To begin again with repeating this cycle with you. To bask in your…
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Keep knowing you are still here!
I’ll like to bear witness to 2021. To remain rooted in some way. To all the life we endured. And remind you all to note that we are still here. This year brought me to my knees. Made me wail in ways that I never knew existed. It wasn’t just the death it brought, though…
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Keep we too sing America!
Langston Hughes has a poem entitled ‘I Too.’ It’s based on Walt Whitman’s classic ‘I Hear America Singing.’ For some reason, I saw the poem today while sifting through my Langston books. It got me wondering, and with all we have endured this year in 2021, just how would America sing? For sure, she would…
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Keep vespers (III) or sleep well Archbishop Desmond Tutu!
I have always loved the beatitudes. Something about being blessed keeps me hopeful and you Archbishop Tutu were the hope so many people relied on. This evening prayer rolls out of my mind with ease because you lived a life like Jesus prayed in the beatitudes. You were indeed blessed, and truly happy, rejecting evil,…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 