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Keep Dolphin Estates!
Read more: Keep Dolphin Estates!Palm trees line greyed walls. Some still baring their fronds. Some bare. There were gates with barbed wires. Black, grey and brown gates with a dash of green and white. Most of the walls too were grey. The skies too grey. It was as if walls and skies gathered together for a grey purpose. We…
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Keep the unknown!
Read more: Keep the unknown!I fell deep into the unknown this past week. Everything was out of place. Even my face broke out in ways unknown. It was as if life was full of chaos and change, all spiraling out of control. I tried to relax, take things in stride but a life relaxed seemed like a luxury my…
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Keep grace while in Lagos!
Read more: Keep grace while in Lagos!The idea of remaining in one piece, birthed this space where all my experiences, parenting, productivity, life continues to roam free. I cannot begin to count all the ways it has helped me heal from fires and storms. My heart knows too, all the ways rivers flow in peace, all because we lived, our way.…
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Keep the West African Council of Medical Research!
Read more: Keep the West African Council of Medical Research!We never forget moments that are rare. Those that are dear. Those that remind us of how far we have come. Those that show grace still for the journey ahead. All of them collided today when we came across an original signature log from the West Africa Council of Medical Research. The year was 1962…
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Keep Nike Art Gallery!
Read more: Keep Nike Art Gallery!This place has haunted my dreams. In it, I imagined I would be surrounded by all sorts of art. Some would be hard to describe. Some would also leave me speechless. Well, speech and description were hard today. Meeting the legend every one calls Mama Nike too. But I’m grateful. All I can say is…
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Keep knowing your soul!
Read more: Keep knowing your soul!I like this idea that glory will be revealed one day. Many may see or not see it too. But it’s been promised so all you can do is wait. 2022 was the year I reached my limit. It was also the year I knew my soul in the words of Claude McKay. The urge,…
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Keep your imaginations!
Read more: Keep your imaginations!Imagination is crucial for life. I’m learning that every day. Imagination, that space between dreaming and thinking, between believing and daring, is a vital source of life. The prolific author, Achebe said if we starve it or pollute it, the quality of our life is depressed or soiled. The sterling writer, hooks noted that it…
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Keep knowing you are your best thing!
Read more: Keep knowing you are your best thing!“You are your best thing.” This line Toni Morrison used in her book Beloved is a gentle reminder to you, to me. I am my best thing. I am. That’s all.
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Keep days full of thanks and deer!
Read more: Keep days full of thanks and deer!As long as the sun shines, the moon gives light, showers fall on the land and deers stroll idly by, near fields full of grass, so shall our hearts be full of thanks for all the wild blessings you bring our way. Like on this day, this deer, this delicate thing we call life. Happy…
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Keep your habits!
Read more: Keep your habits!Octavia Butler once shared the following: ‘Forget talent! If you have it fine. Use it. If you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter. As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.’ As I begin to slowly wrap up this year, I am making sense of all I did this…
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Keep prevailing Black women. Prevail like Gwendolyn Brooks demands!
Read more: Keep prevailing Black women. Prevail like Gwendolyn Brooks demands!Every now and then, I come across poetry that is arch and precise. Some focused on the sublime that is our sublime, like the earth that is our earth. And when I seat and mediate on the words, reflect too on the light they carry, I am pushed to carry this light too. Knowing there…
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Keep women!
Read more: Keep women!Some poetry help you see who and what you are. I keep learning that every day. Lucille Clifton is my muse. I travelled for work over the weekend and carried along 2 of her books of poetry: ‘How to carry water’ and ‘Quilting.’ I was drawn to both because they help me see who I…
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