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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 escaping with words!
Read more: Keep escaping with words!I want to be that no ordinary kind of woman that meets herself every time through words. To remind her, that because of words, we can survive, live, love, pray, as we escape the unthinkable. These are cold days, but words can lead out to our breakout as we learn what life is. So if…
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Keep an ambitious year!
Read more: Keep an ambitious year!How do we approach the complexities of ourselves fearlessly? How do we do it whether as a mother, a writer, a wife, a sister or a friend, fearlessly? How do we uncover our untapped power fearlessly? How do we accept all our tensions or even our chaos fearlessly? Yet still somehow, unleash our ambitions fearlessly?…
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Keep the blessings of a new year!
Read more: Keep the blessings of a new year!Dear New Year, What to make of thee, from all who seek your new? This time, our hunger grows day by day. For paths our feet are prepared to walk through. This rich promise for new the morning sun will not betray. To begin again with repeating this cycle with you. To bask in your…
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Keep knowing you are still here!
Read more: Keep knowing you are still here!I’ll like to bear witness to 2021. To remain rooted in some way. To all the life we endured. And remind you all to note that we are still here. This year brought me to my knees. Made me wail in ways that I never knew existed. It wasn’t just the death it brought, though…
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Keep we too sing America!
Read more: Keep we too sing America!Langston Hughes has a poem entitled ‘I Too.’ It’s based on Walt Whitman’s classic ‘I Hear America Singing.’ For some reason, I saw the poem today while sifting through my Langston books. It got me wondering, and with all we have endured this year in 2021, just how would America sing? For sure, she would…
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Keep vespers (III) or sleep well Archbishop Desmond Tutu!
Read more: Keep vespers (III) or sleep well Archbishop Desmond Tutu!I have always loved the beatitudes. Something about being blessed keeps me hopeful and you Archbishop Tutu were the hope so many people relied on. This evening prayer rolls out of my mind with ease because you lived a life like Jesus prayed in the beatitudes. You were indeed blessed, and truly happy, rejecting evil,…
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Keep the beauty of chaos!
Read more: Keep the beauty of chaos!I am gliding into 2022 with an undying commitment to simplicity. Like bundles of sticks, I intend to find strength with those that choose to stand together with me. It’s a commitment after all and you are either in or out as I follow my star. I am also prepared to endure all that life…
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Keep a merry day!
Read more: Keep a merry day!From my home to yours, I hope your day was merry and bright.
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Keep 8 days of Christmas fun!
Read more: Keep 8 days of Christmas fun!Yesterday we began an adventure into 8 days of Christmas fun. In fact, we are living our lives through a book written and illustrated by my daughter. All I can say is that because of her, my world is Belle. Like Lotanna Belle, there are no limits. She is one who opens our hearts to…
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Keep walking up and down stairs, my baby!
Read more: Keep walking up and down stairs, my baby!Born in the year of a pandemic, I remember when he started to crawl. He crawled as if he was ready to walk. He walked when he turned 9 months. He has been walking ever since. Late last month, we started to remove all the protective features around our stairs. By this month, we removed…
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Keep asking why?
Read more: Keep asking why?Everything changes, the moment you hear the word. Life flashes through in a second. None of us can cheat life. None can escape the battle of death. I have tried to understand 2021. Fast runners never win their race. A fish still gets caught in a net. No matter how hard I tried, I still…
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