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Keep transforming silence into action!
Read more: Keep transforming silence into action!What are the things you wish to change for yourself? What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What hurt, or pain, or emotions do you swallow day by day? What sickens you, even kills you, still in silence? These words from Audre Lorde’s essay on transforming silence…
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Keep healing for this continuous trauma!
Read more: Keep healing for this continuous trauma!How do we heal when lives are cut too soon?Remain calm when lives seem forever doomed? When do we start to usher healing, insist on its presence, demand its existence? Is it when we plead for our lives? Is it when we say we are afraid or when you remind us that we should be?…
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Keep my journey, our journey, in mind.
Read more: Keep my journey, our journey, in mind.I am on a mission to experience joy in my journey through life. To that, I am learning what makes me feel whole. Bell Hooks’s Sisters of Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery is leading the way too. From her, I learnt that I am moved by passion. It’s in everything I do these days. Reading…
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Keep knowing that ‘if and when you ever fall, get back up again’ as DMX would say!
Read more: Keep knowing that ‘if and when you ever fall, get back up again’ as DMX would say!DMX once shared the following, ‘if and when you ever fall down, get back up…and if you fall down eight times, get up nine.’ By now, you may know that this legendary man with a gift with words has transitioned from this world to the next. I spent most of my yesterday reminiscing about him,…
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Keep being resilient with racism like the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly!
Read more: Keep being resilient with racism like the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly!Much can be learned about butterflies by watching them. I had the privilege of doing so a couple of days ago. With the Spring weather now glorious in Saint Louis, we went for a walk around my neighborhood. The eastern rosebuds were in full bloom along the road and so were the butterflies you see…
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Keep lily magnolias in mind for motherhood!
Read more: Keep lily magnolias in mind for motherhood!The prior owners of our new home loved planting. You can tell by the rich array of plant species surrounding our home. These plants are not so common or well I’m not used to seeing so many different species of plants. So I did the next best thing and got an app to begin to…
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Keep the hill we climb in mind!
Read more: Keep the hill we climb in mind!This post is a short one. I had to support because she captivated my attention that fine January 20th day. Amanda Gorman and her poetry, her aura, her words, spoken so effortlessly, so eloquently, made me long for days and times where minds are free and words are like opium for the soul. Fierce and…
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Keep radiating even with a dress!
Read more: Keep radiating even with a dress!Yesterday, we all went to church for Easter. This was my baby’s first Sunday mass. I knew that holding him close to myself at church would evoke the desire to breastfeed. It always does whenever he sees an opportunity. I struggled to figure out what to wear. Not only has the baby weight, refused to…
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Keep rolling away the stone with Easter!
Read more: Keep rolling away the stone with Easter!I never imagined I would not celebrate Easter, not celebrate a service in church, not congregate with people again. But last year and thanks to a Pandemic, we did. We spent the day in the most surreal way, listening to service online and contemplating how long this would last. That feeling of never going to…
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Keep the resources of the Black Church in mind!
Read more: Keep the resources of the Black Church in mind!I came across an article that ushered today’s musing. The authors concluded that ‘minority youth have access to valuable resources within their families and communities, yet in the general population, these youth have poorer outcomes than their majority counterparts.’ This conflict between what minority youth have and how they fare, is a conflict that ought…
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Keep continuity like cherry blossoms!
Read more: Keep continuity like cherry blossoms!We were surrounded by trees yesterday at Forest Park. Cherry blossoms trees as majestic as can be. Cherry blossoms signal the return of Spring. Like raindrops on a sunny day, they bring awe, and continuity for life’s many mysteries. They also bring joy. The mere sighting of a tree full of cherry blossoms evokes feelings…
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Keep adventures always, whether Zoos, trains or boats!
Read more: Keep adventures always, whether Zoos, trains or boats!I had this grand idea to go to the Zoo with my children today. It was grand considering how one of my kids loves the Zoo. Not for the animals but for the train rides. We actually go to the Saint Louis Zoo just so we ride the train around the Zoo. We went two…
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