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Keep the liquidity of legacy!
Read more: Keep the liquidity of legacy!Remembering the changes that shape one’s life and legacy. Even if things change, our legacy will remain forever.
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Keep this freedom gathering ‘
Read more: Keep this freedom gathering ‘Memories of our gathering resurface every 2 years, around the 4th of July. You dressed in red, blue, white. We draped in orange wrappers and dark green blouses the color of evergreen leaves. Plus it’s as if we are both celebrating our independence, our freedom, only difference is that we free and you are not…
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Keep those who see the light and stars within!
Read more: Keep those who see the light and stars within!Where do you begin a poem about women in light. At the same time how do you begin with those unafraid of the wind. Those that understand the essence of rain. Some women will make you grieve, others will help you release, yet some will remind you of how to reach the happiness within. Some…
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Keep the grace of scarves!
Read more: Keep the grace of scarves!There is a picture of my grandmother that I return to often. It’s a black and white picture with a white scarf resting half way through her head. The colors of the scarves are locked in time for me, except that they seem white next to a head full of black hair. I return often…
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Keep these thoughts on writing.
Read more: Keep these thoughts on writing.Underneath skin, we pull each other in, and reveal things within. We explore edges, those without limits, those that discern boundaries within. Yet the boundaries, and the limits, the edges underneath skin, unfold moments where words are like the layers of cells beneath. The word was writing. The goal was to write about how I…
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Keep the joy of eating jollof rice together!
Read more: Keep the joy of eating jollof rice together!My jollof rice is joyful, so it’s heavenly taste with my people. Every Sunday afternoon is joyful. So the smiles of my people. Joyful also are our gathering. Joyful also are these memories with my people. I have been reading Braiding Sweetgrass and the idea of the holder and the braider reminded me of what…
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Keep all that makes you create!
Read more: Keep all that makes you create!I have been in class the past 4 weeks. It ended today hence my absence here. Ben Okri once shared that the most authentic thing about being human, is our ability to create. We can create, overcome what we create, endure as we create, transform what we create, love all we create, and still be…
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Keep the memories of LIGHT Year 3 and Rest in Peace, Dr. Ivis M. Richardson!
Read more: Keep the memories of LIGHT Year 3 and Rest in Peace, Dr. Ivis M. Richardson!Our LIGHT festival just ended. I was supposed to close and inform people about the plans for next year. I didn’t. I couldn’t. Our last speaker, Christell Roach lost her grandmother, Dr Ivis M. Richardson yesterday. She could have cancelled, she could have called and told us about her death. We would have understood. My…
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Keep the 3rd annual LIGHT festival for the public by the public with public health!
Read more: Keep the 3rd annual LIGHT festival for the public by the public with public health!When we started this three years ago, we imagined we would do as Audre Lorde’s once noted and bring a burst of light to public health. The world was in a pandemic, health was in a disarray, everything with the public was complex and messy and at that moment we knew that light was needed.…
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Keep Dr. H. Phillip Venable Memorial Park!
Read more: Keep Dr. H. Phillip Venable Memorial Park!In a town called Creve Coeur lies a park that should have housed a home, that should have been full of black people jocking and jiving, singing or playing trumpets on Sunday afternoons long after a sermon at church. Dr. H. Phillip Venable, would have been sitting outside of his front porch, catching the breeze,…
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Keep dreams at a park!
Read more: Keep dreams at a park!We went to Pioneer Park today. A small park on Taille Street, off Manchester road. Four children were fascinated by the playground that lined the park. Three boys and a girl wearing a red tie dye shirt. Tall oaks lined the park. About 21 if sitting on a black park bench across from the restroom.…
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Keep writing grants like the high point of life or dreams!
Read more: Keep writing grants like the high point of life or dreams!We begin again, only this time with a new team. Held a grant-writing workshop that lasted for 5-days last May. It was a first of its kind where only writing each day was allowed. Five of us made an attempt to write. We did and ended up with a single page. Crossed the box of…
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