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Keep for girls and women by girls and women!
Read more: Keep for girls and women by girls and women!I said I wasn’t going to cry. Said I would be strong as we still have miles to go. I have typed and retyped what I would say when a day like today arrives and honestly I stand in awe. To think that the news of our victory came on 9-22-22 keeps me numb. Thank…
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Keep being limitless like a rainbow!
Read more: Keep being limitless like a rainbow!He drew a rainbow. A rainbow for me. He drew it up to show that I was a good mom. A loving one too. A rainbow, for a mom, good and loving. This is the recent image from a boy who just a month ago drew himself laying beside a pool of blood. I stood…
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Keep witnessing.
Read more: Keep witnessing.When a woman dies, and her cervix is to blame, catapulting her from the prime of her life, to her grave, what remains as a witness to her life, her stories, her cervix, her silenced voice? Who will resuscitate a life cut down by cervix? As I watch my life story slowly change, with cervical…
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Keep simple things!
Read more: Keep simple things!Nobody gave her anything. Not the one she loved. Not the ones that loved her. Not even the ones she confided in, all things great, all things small. And so she sailed through life. Not giving. Not laying it all down. Not showing how she endured and endured until her last breath when her cervix…
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Keep Ije Uwa!
Read more: Keep Ije Uwa!I am learning everyday, life is short. Love life like air, like mango trees. Ije uwa. Only this matters. No matter how small, keep your story. Write it as a note, a song, a book, the wind, or the kernels of a sheri mango. For candles will blow, tears will fall, even mangos grow old…
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Keep saying Kedu to all the ancestors gone, like my Mama!
Read more: Keep saying Kedu to all the ancestors gone, like my Mama!I talk to my late grandma, often, every Sunday in particular. Whenever I say my prayers after holy communion, I say hello to her. English was not her first language. So all her prayers were in pidgin English and Igbo back then. She mixed both languages often. My favorite being the one for Blessed Sacrament.…
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Keep being in service of others like moonrise!
Read more: Keep being in service of others like moonrise!I imagine a people can lose sight of their history. Become swept away by the current of other people’s history. Ignore too when the rain began to beat them that they forget to dry themselves up. All of this is grave. The loosing sight, being swept away and simply forgetting. But of all this, prescribing…
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Keep knowing that research is people!
Read more: Keep knowing that research is people!I remember her smile like it was yesterday. She always smiled. She was tall and very beautiful. The look on her eyes was like paradise, always mesmerizing, always kind, always tender, always love. Her name was Selena and she was loved by so many. I share her story today, not to grumble, but as a…
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Keep knowing where your voice belongs or all things Sheryl Lee Ralph!
Read more: Keep knowing where your voice belongs or all things Sheryl Lee Ralph!“I am an endangered species. But I sing no victim song. I am a woman. I am an artist. And I know where my voice belongs… To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream, wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true. I am here to tell you that this is what believing…
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Keep the significance of grants like roots!
Read more: Keep the significance of grants like roots!There is a part of a grant, more poignant to me these days. It’s the part that keeps me up every night. The part that keeps me restless. The part often hidden. The part that anchors me. The part too that absorbs everything and transports me to new heights. The part worthy of digging. The…
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Keep notes to Angi’s cervix or cervical cancer!
Read more: Keep notes to Angi’s cervix or cervical cancer!In a little over a year, now, our life as we knew it came tumbling down. We called her Angie or Angi and to know her was to know life. I am reminded again, that death should never have the final say. Not when those alive can continue the story of a live well lived.…
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Keep knowing what you will keep or legacy!
Read more: Keep knowing what you will keep or legacy!The news of the Queens death came to me yesterday in the middle of work. I paused to immediately reflect on the number 70 and the age 25. Here was a woman who ruled her land for over 70 years, a land she inherited at the age of 25. Legacies are built this way, young…
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