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Keep serving!
Read more: Keep serving!The power hidden in serving, how it may make you look small, like a speck, as if feeble, like a candle, all of this, plus, limited time, like a river flowing away, are the reasons to serve. Plus even if you don’t see the river, even if it’s directions, whether up or down, left or…
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Keep this lifetime!
Read more: Keep this lifetime!If in this lifetime, you have a certain mind, heart, soul, dreams, regrets, visions, I pray you love all of it, all of you, this lifetime. Then if there are endless roses or thorns along the way, keep walking, as a journey of a lifetime, will be full of thorns, full of endless roses. My aunty…
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Keep all that remains!
Read more: Keep all that remains!We are thinking about resilience, thinking about what remains and what ends, thinking too about who stands and who gets to thrive, not just trees or flowers or the things we plant with our bare hands, but us, our children, our most vital source of all the ways we bloom, long after we are gone.…
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Keep the depths of pine trees!
Read more: Keep the depths of pine trees!On any given day, a group of pine trees stand tall at the back of our home. They are slim and delicate, always evergreen with branches so soft to touch. Wild winds sway their branches often , wild air their needles and pinecones too. Still they stand, tall and strong, always delicate to touch. But…
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Keep living!
Read more: Keep living!I saw an image of a woman dead and it spoke vividly to me to live. To see her dead and just her eyes to testify to her life is the mirror I needed to see and the reminder to live life for as long as life is worth living. Otherwise I too would be…
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Keep the many phases of motherhood!
Read more: Keep the many phases of motherhood!All a mother needs for strength these days are in the eyes of those she birthed. For her, nothing remains the same and opening up is like Spring season, a moment when words start to speak on their own whether silently or loud. For her, the sun never goes down. The moon is like a…
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Keep the memories of a pandemic!
Read more: Keep the memories of a pandemic!5 years later, our hair is slowly greying, bones are still wide, and life is running by without a care. From out the dark, at the beginning of the pandemic, words started to emerge from deep within as we trembled through the world. At first, they were concerned about health care workers, all those literally…
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Keep words like robins on top of branches!
Read more: Keep words like robins on top of branches!There are days when you don’t know what you are doing. Three notes are written. One remains and begins like this. We need to focus, gain clarity and sweet understanding for all the things masking the guilt that follows. We write hiding from a little boy that calls our name. We stare out a window…
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Keep knowing this is life is for spinning again!
Read more: Keep knowing this is life is for spinning again!The sounds I hear this evening are of the footsteps of little boys, thuds from books dropping, clanging of tall beige blinds, opening or closing of doors, pages of books too, little boys reading out loud, on bears, about bears, that we question what we are doing here. There are cups clanging, plates too, little…
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Keep dreaming together!
Read more: Keep dreaming together!I saw a flock of blackbirds in the sky today. Each one flying as if together. One flew away, in the opposite direction. Another flew back as if to get it to fly in the right direction. They circled a tree over and over again, perching to rest but flying around again, until there were…
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Keep this women’s day!
Read more: Keep this women’s day!You do not have to be happy, you do not have to be international or woman, to know the amazon within you, to let the journey from your head to your heart, know why today is worth celebrating. Tell me your story about being a woman and I’ll tell you mine plus the strength that…
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Keep these wishes!
Read more: Keep these wishes!In the book of wishes, Eve Merriam, wished that we would learn to love darkness as well as light. She wished we would also remember that trees need roots below to grow up to the sky. So too this thing called dreams. I am learning these days to bask in moments dark as well as…

















