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Keep motherhood like crawling and the ground in mind!
Read more: Keep motherhood like crawling and the ground in mind!Have you ever tried to crawl? To place your hands on the ground, your knees as well, and slowly meander forward. Have you ever gone lower? This time, with placing your stomach, flatly on the ground and slowly meander forward. What if you placed an object afar? Then slowly, even effortless, meander forward, towards the…
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Keep the sighting of a deer in mind!
Read more: Keep the sighting of a deer in mind!Imagine seeing a deer for the first time in awhile. On a snowy or dry day. Along a road full of tall trees or in a park or a village where people and animals co-live. What would you do? Would you pause and take in the beauty. Its gaze, its tenderness, its stride or even…
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Keep the lens of children!
Read more: Keep the lens of children!I read somewhere that children are the lens through which adults can relearn how to live. Though their tomorrow’s are uncertain, the often live their today’s free from the limits of the future. For to a child, forever is never guaranteed. Only today and all it’s limits and possibilities. There is an Igbo proverb which…
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Keep basking in your writing!
Read more: Keep basking in your writing!Insights into life of working mothers and the pandemic are rare. Not the stories of coping well, but the pitched battle of silence and survival. When I come across these insights (see picture below), I feel seen. The past 11 months of the pandemic has been debilitating slowly. It has taken a lot to make…
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Keep writing even when tired!
Read more: Keep writing even when tired!Almost missed a day of writing. I reminded myself not to. Yet it almost happened. Writing is indeed a tough business. It takes dedication and time and I applaud all writers who do this everyday non stop. This post also is short and reminder to myself to keep writing. I realize that it is easy…
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Keep understanding with mistakes!
Read more: Keep understanding with mistakes!In one of my daughter’s journal entry for school, she was asked ‘what makes her family special?’ She wrote: My family is special because we are always fun.’ I chuckled. But the next sentence made me alert. She wrote: ‘They also understand whenever I make mistakes.’ As a family, we are keenly aware that mistakes…
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Keep spelling my Belle!
Read more: Keep spelling my Belle!With a perfect spelling of the word ‘sponge,’ my daughter won today’s spelling bee for her 3rd grade class. She was proud of herself. I was too. Here is a girl who continues to make me happy with everything she does. Her love for learning is full of grace, full of possibilities and totally captivating.…
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Keep Girl’s scouts and their cookies in mind.
Read more: Keep Girl’s scouts and their cookies in mind.I am a girl’s scout’s mom. I think I have been waiting for this day since I knew I was having a girl. My daughter and her friends from her former school formed a new troop. This is our first outing as a Girl Scout troop. It’s also our first time selling cookies. In the…
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Keep what matters still!
Read more: Keep what matters still!The past few days have been filled with work. Not the kind of work that academics love to do. But the one that people who truly love what they do. It’s sublime, forces you to be still, so the words flow. Word work is becoming my solace in the middle of this pandemic. It’s not…
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Keep questions still with children!
Read more: Keep questions still with children!Are grey wolves really grey? Do they have sharp eyes? What do grey wolves eat? For science, these questions were asked by my daughter as part of her designing a habitat assignment. At first glance, I smiled. My daughter is beginning to know the possibilities of questions. Not for their answers alone. That would be…
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Keep words, keep language!
Read more: Keep words, keep language!I have been reading ‘What moves at the margin’ by Toni Morrison. One of my favorite quotes by Toni Morrison, one she shared during her Nobel Lecture in Literature is: ‘We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That maybe the measure of our lives.’ Obviously very few people did…
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Keep 100 days of school in mind!
Read more: Keep 100 days of school in mind!We finally made it to 100 days of school last week. I thought when this day arrived this school year, I would be elated. Elated because my children are resilient. Elated because they kept persevering despite school now at home and home at school. Elated because they made it work. Elated because, though I am…
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