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Keep this Bright Star!
Read more: Keep this Bright Star!I love balance with life. Where something stands, Achebe once noted, something else will stand beside it. I’m a researcher, a professor of medicine, a public health scientist and one focused on sustaining evidence based interventions in resource limited settings. It’s my head. I am also a mother, a wife, Onyelo’s Isi-baby, a sister, a…
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Keep this metaphor!
Read more: Keep this metaphor!I was asked to describe myself yesterday, I said I am storyteller. Everything I do begins from a place of stories. I am in the process of beginning, becoming too, and stories, like metaphors are leading. Then I proceeded to break and empty myself, my dreams to strangers I was meeting for the first time.…
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Keep grace!
Read more: Keep grace!I begged my bones to be kind to me. They remembered yesterday and praised tomorrow. How will we stay the same they said. Now that we know the meaning of grace. So we let them drown as if in a pool of never ending water, as if in a sea of roaring waves, knowing they…
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Keep all the ways you “light your path.”
Read more: Keep all the ways you “light your path.”see women invisible, like your grandmother, are like light in the path, doves on a rock hill, with soft extravagant scars, across the soles of their feet. see the steps she took, across slippery water, it was her, that first heard birds calling, palm trees rustling, a woman by the river singing, children crying, not…
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Keep speaking!
Read more: Keep speaking!There are those who speak with a voice full of ease. But I speak of persistence to those I love. So they readily meet life, choose love, just as they see it.
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Keep a plan!
Read more: Keep a plan!Imagine if you sat in a room full of young people, what would you say, how would you begin. I sat in a room full of young people yesterday and saw myself in their eyes. Their minds were open and ready to learn. I began with these words from my mother “Enter to learn, depart…
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Keep all the ways you begin!
Read more: Keep all the ways you begin!we are all driven by stories, possibilities within, the hopeless rampages of pain, or the stillness of morning dews, all of which are both life and writing. how we begin is all that matters so long as we begin.
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Keep knowing you are enough!
Read more: Keep knowing you are enough!if near angry oceans, roaring waterfalls, vicious waves or crying rivers, like a deer, thirsty, stand and drink in praise. what eyes see, lips taste are enough!
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Keep all things you love
Read more: Keep all things you loveI write this. Not for you who fight to write your own words…but you who neither fear nor fight. I write this reminding you always to choose you. The world seems vast. It can also be remote and unfamiliar. But love for yourself will win and win.
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Keep this peace!
Read more: Keep this peace!Here is the truth. Run across a bridge. Inhale its links. Exhale its air. Joy will be there, inner peace and golden trumpets too, where skies are grey.
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Keep ordinary moments
Read more: Keep ordinary momentsDespite the skies being grey, we drive up the street to the place where it all began. Seven of us in a white bus, driving every morning to the place where anyone can lead change. There is an ostrich dressed to blend with grass. A giant head smiling as we drive pass every day. Meat…
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Keep celebrating the one known as Onyelo!
Read more: Keep celebrating the one known as Onyelo!Love is as love does and when love begins with Nnem you will give life love. The light of love is in the one everyone calls Nnem. Onyelo. The impossible being whose being is as secure as the clouds in the sky. Her love is always there, always loving, always letting the love within us…
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