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Keep knowing that the source of health is never outside!
Read more: Keep knowing that the source of health is never outside!I am re-reading Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salteaters, and I am struck by this line in the book ‘the source of health is never outside.’ The book itself is always worth a read but the idea of all you need for health nestled within you has always made me feel whole. Two days ago, my…
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Keep knowing that we are all storytellers!
Read more: Keep knowing that we are all storytellers!I see things differently with each passing day. I know things differently too. Where one thing stands, another thing will stand right beside it. That was Achebe’s thing. I get that. Also that the storyteller is the eagle’s feather. It’s all he spoke about. I am also seeing that our focus on certain things like…
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Keep knowing you can do anything!
Read more: Keep knowing you can do anything!I know that girl. I see the light in her eyes every time she remembers she can do anything. She may not know how to be brave in the moment. May not know what to say or how to fight back in the moment. But when she remembers her mother’s voice, she knows she can…
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Keep blooming in Spring like Callery Pear Tree!
Read more: Keep blooming in Spring like Callery Pear Tree!I hear you are very persistent. Prone to reinvade even when removed. I hear you are highly resilient. Thick dense branches push out others who compete with you for water, soil, space, sun. I hear some call you invasive. Birds love your fruit, spread your seeds and you rise up unbidden again. But I see…
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Keep lessons of trees in spring!
Read more: Keep lessons of trees in spring!Love is always present, always with us. I see it clearly in Spring. Whenever Spring comes around, my mind and heart open up. Everything about this season pushes me to live my life to the fullest. To live in the moment too. And trees call me. With every way they sway, they move me. Naked…
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Keep blooming like red maple trees.
Read more: Keep blooming like red maple trees.There is a red maple tree I often see. It’s finally coming in full bloom for Spring. Finally turning around for this season. All I can say is God must be smiling. For who wouldn’t when you see such red beauty becoming it’s own again. Even birds in the skies marvel at how the tree…
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Keep trust like children!
Read more: Keep trust like children!We all know trust is hard. It evades. Drowns in oceans and disappears. It’s steady if you have it. Old people seek it. Young people ignore it. But children elevate it, create new possibilities with it. Even if they are drowning. They trust they’ll never sink. Not when the ocean loves them back. To know…
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Keep moments with God, Part 5!
Read more: Keep moments with God, Part 5!My son told me yesterday, he would buy me flowers forever when he gets older. I smiled. He is only five and still reminds me of God every time I look in his eyes. I forgot to pen one more moment with him as he turned 5 back in February. He reminded me of why…
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Keep the lessons of meltdowns!
Read more: Keep the lessons of meltdowns!Everyone that loves you know the outbursts is not in your voice. Hands flaring. Nose glaring. The outbursts are not by choice. Pitch getting loud, redirection leading to nowhere. These outbursts are only noise. For a mind overflowing with visions of sunsets, and Orion and dreams of a little star that could, even as tears…
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Keep Springtime gardening
Read more: Keep Springtime gardeningMy dad had a garden in the front of our home in Nigeria. He planted hibiscus flowers and aloe Vera plant. He loved the natural ingredients nestled within them. He made the most exquisite juices with them. Memories of the garden always flood my mind during Spring. We are getting ready to begin our gardening…
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Keep rising!
Read more: Keep rising!That which is deep within us rises. Through dreams upon dreams, lifts up. Through shrouds of darkness too, continues an ascent. Until unseen visions take to the air, like eagles and soar. I see mountains. No turning back. My week has been nothing short of chaotic. If I didn’t know I was obsessed with grant…
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Keep meatpies!
Read more: Keep meatpies!We are how we live. How we bake too, like meat pies made in love. How we dream, how we hope, through thick and thin plus time. I choose your eternity. Choose your smiles too. Something about the power of you. Keeps me smiling. Like how we smiled today. How I hope we smile tomorrow…

















