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Keep the legacy of Mary Turner!
Read more: Keep the legacy of Mary Turner!They called her Mary. 19 years old Mary. I imagine she was happy. Pregnant and happy. Preparing for new life. Until, the life she knew was lynched. Killed, before they could experience, new life together. I imagine she was wild. Death will make anyone wild. She feared nothing. Feared no one. Prepared to live. Ready…
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Keep ambitious mothers!
Read more: Keep ambitious mothers!Since the pandemic began, many mothers, myself included, have been following unknowingly, dominant narratives of how mothers are languishing. Last week, I discovered for myself another story never told. It was at the first Ambitious Mothers summit held in Paradise Valley by my dear friend Ronke Faleti. The woman who arrived at the summit the…
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Keep peace!
Read more: Keep peace!I retreated from the world this week. I retreated to find peace and rest. Upon my return, the infinity of chaos, pandemic lessons in vain, the fate of humanity, a cloud of gloom, piercing dark skies unimaginable reality, for old and young all have me at loss for words. Even now, Nothing, can describe, why…
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Keep a community of women!
Read more: Keep a community of women!So this must be why they call it paradise, spirit and soul connecting, listening, being together, under blue skies and palm trees, purple cactus and lemon trees, eating herb roasted whole chicken, fennel crusted sea bass, with baby kale risotto, while drinking blood orange lemon punch, and the sun set is as dazzling as can…
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Keep knowing where there is women, there is magic!
Read more: Keep knowing where there is women, there is magic!Where there is a woman there is magic. Where there is a woman, magic is there. If the moon is falling from her mouth, if the brilliance of the moon is even in her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic. Like a gentle deer, she knows her brilliance too. And a woman…
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Keep moments with God part 4!
Read more: Keep moments with God part 4!Maybe it was the cold. I have never liked the easy wind of cold winter days. Maybe it was the place. I never understood the bewitching charms of Augusta. Maybe it was the month. I have always ignored the swiftness of February. Or maybe it was you. Now, I truly wonder if it was you.…
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Keep moments with God, part 3!
Read more: Keep moments with God, part 3!Ada Zion’s legion, gathered today, watching God, the guide among them, rejoiced in thanksgiving, giving thanks. Something about blessings. Something about people. Something about love. God, Thank you for this love.
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Keep life notes!
Read more: Keep life notes!I am not quick to describe for myself whether life is this or that. There are so many different ways to live life. Many different ways to make it your own out of something much deeper than anything that you can describe. Sometimes you will fail. Sometimes you will succeed. But life keeps going, almost…
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Keep knowing what you will keep and happy birthday Audre Lorde!
Read more: Keep knowing what you will keep and happy birthday Audre Lorde!I remember reading these lines from Audre Lorde years ago, in a letter she once wrote to a friend, that it is ‘out of chaos that new worlds are born.’ For the past two years, I have been moving past so many boundaries I once set for myself through words. Of course the pandemic was…
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Keep moments with God, part 2!
Read more: Keep moments with God, part 2!You came in the afternoon. Around four, forty-five. On two, seventeen, seventeen. Daddy was there the entire time. Just him, you and Gillian, our nurse practitioner with a smile that never fades. Only three of us. She looked at Dad and asked if he was ready. He smiled. She knew he was. He wore the…
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Keep praising children who know love!
Read more: Keep praising children who know love!We remind ourselves, each day, all children are precious. Black, Brown, White, no matter the color, or creed, all children, whether strange or foreign, are precious. Recently, I have been struggling with the reality that some children have nothing precious or valuable within them. I often wonder too what happened to them that at their…
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Keep speaking love!
Read more: Keep speaking love!And when I speak of love, I speak of you. I speak of how you emptied yourself in me, one fine Friday evening and nine months later, we birthed a queen so powerful like the amazons of Dahomey, Queens of Nimo. I speak of our boys, all three of them with beauty so numberless, wisdom…
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