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Keep a heartbeat!
Read more: Keep a heartbeat!Our hearts can begin again, a beat on their own, a life of their own, beyond fear that swallows their own, dreams and songs on their own, which begins like a beat again, all on their own, again.
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Keep birds in flight in mind!
Read more: Keep birds in flight in mind!Birds fly in three ways. Some flap. Falcons flap by lifting and thrusting their wings across the skies. Some soar. Eagles rise up on their wings and soar to the skies. Some glide. Vultures glide across the skies hurtling down like stones dripping from the skies. To watch falcons flap, see eagles soar or look…
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Keep Black Women!
Read more: Keep Black Women!The day begins with love. To women everywhere, especially those black and hive. Those that smile when we arrive. Those who switch tongues on overdrive. Those who blow kisses that jive. Those whose laughter we archive. Those who stay unmasked and alive. Those yearning for all the ways we thrive. Those who celebrate all the…
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Keep unnaming and renaming yourself!
Read more: Keep unnaming and renaming yourself!First we accept. All definitions will do. Formats and styles that worked previously too. We accept things as they are. We pray they accept us too. They don’t. We try and try and still we remain unaccepted. Then we begin to look inwards. We begin the work of looking at ourselves through their lens. A…
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Keep being mist!
Read more: Keep being mist!Being mist, I see that I may have to obscure understanding, drizzle like fine rain, enlist all fog, till they hear me roar.
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Keep dreams!
Read more: Keep dreams!I taught my first dream grant-writing course today. It’s been a long time coming. What we will be waits in us like an ache and today I saw it with my own eyes. I didn’t know where the words were coming from. They seem to come from a place carefully crafted for a moment like…

















