Category: The Journey
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Keep being true, keep being you!
The enterprise of being you, a complete individual, unique in your own way and in your own thoughts starts with being complete. I am complete on my own and in my own terms. This is the lesson for today. Keep being complete. It’s a lesson I learnt after looking at an assignment my daughter completed…
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Keep Mess (in) a bottle in mind and now at Target!
My dear friend and her stunning shirts from her line Mess (in) a bottle are now available at Target. We went to college together. I remember when she started. Not only is she an Architect, but she quit a lucrative job and income with Under Armor to start her T-shirt company. She is the true…
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Keep what matters for you!
On this 120th day of writing, I am in awe of how I continue to write day by day. The details, the feelings, the mood that seem to flood in my mind and into words one day at a time, is humbling. Is this how those who call themselves writers begin? I really want to…
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Keep smiling!
My baby is 6 month old today. For the past 6 months, he has filled my life with joy. Like the sweetest sweets, which lingers long after the first taste. He remains my heart’s joy, my secret treasure, my soul’s desire. I literally smile everytime I see him and he smiles back. Every moment with…
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Keep the republic!
Are we a perfect union? No. But ‘we are a republic if we can keep it.’ These words were echoed yesterday by one Senator after another prior to the mob attack at the US capitol and more fervently once the Senate reconvened following the attack. Many argue and even suggest that what we all witnessed…
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Keep following your path!
One of my favorite pictures from homeschooling last year is of my daughter and her brother walking together. My daughter, the artist, describes it as walking their own way, like when we go for walks along Forest Park. I especially love the picture because I see myself in my children, walking my own path, even…
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Keep joy, still and even with baby steps!
How many ways can one write about joy? I would like to know. With each passing day, joy for me, is becoming a true devotion, my heart’s desire. To seek and find joy in things that matter to me. My heart is content. Like with my little boy. Every attempt he makes with crawling is…
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Keep choosing joy!
We stopped by our old house to clean up. The past couple of days since we moved have been emotional. This was the first home we bought and literally built from the ground up when we first moved to Saint Louis. It will forever hold a special place in my heart especially given the pandemic.…
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Keep being icy trees!
2021 started with icy rain. The intensity of the rain seemed to have it’s greatest impact on the the trees around our house. They were full of ice. Almost all the tree crown turned into ice. As I looked at them, I couldn’t help but imagine how trees survive freezing, icy rain. It’s probably the…
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Keep rolling again and again!
I never planned to keep writing. I only wanted to chronicle my silence plus survival as a wife to a frontline worker and a mother to three homeschooled children in the middle of a global pandemic. 2020 was a tough year and making sense of it my way, was paramount to me. A necessity even,…
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Keep struggling eloquently!
I recently asked my kids what they would like to do in the New Year that they have never done before. My 8 year old daughter would love to plant a garden in our new home. My six year old son wishes to stop crying. While my three year old son, simply wants to keep…
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Keep the lens of children!
Imagine seeing the world from the lens of children, seeing what they see, feeling what they feel or even listening to what they listen to. I have been doing so for the past couple of days with my children. There have been screaming with tablets that won’t load or are dead. Watching intently whether snow…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 