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Keep our silent knowing!
Read more: Keep our silent knowing!‘Palm on the glass, touching. Face to face, I stand. Unspeaking, I look into my eyes. Silent, knowing.’ In the book ‘The Origin of Others,’ Toni Morrison shared a story about a trip to Vienna Biennale. She described being in a room with artworks on display. She was asked to enter a dark room where…
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Keep knowing where you are from!
Read more: Keep knowing where you are from!We named our daughter Lotanna to remember our father, our son Chiwetel to marvel at the gift we got from God, our other son Olisadubem for God to be his guide, and our baby Ranyenna to be grateful and as a reminder to give God what belongs to him always. The names we gave our…
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Keep Anna Julia Cooper in mind, this Black History Month!
Read more: Keep Anna Julia Cooper in mind, this Black History Month!In the spirit of Black History Month, my family and I have been reading about Anna Julia Cooper, the 4th African American woman to earn a doctorate, something she accomplished in 1924. Anna Julia Cooper was as fearless as she was powerful, as sublime as she was effortless in her discussions not only on the…
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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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