The art of living · storm meets star

Storytelling

Where storm meets star, you tell it — and telling it is keeping it. Hold the lightning and the light in the same hand, and find the meaning waiting between them. Most days live here. This is the art of living, written down one morning at a time.

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  • Keep understanding life!

    Keep understanding life!

    The Igbo people have a popular saying that nothing new happens under the sun. Life is in constant motion and anything that is happening now has happened before and will happen again.  We are making jewelry again. This life will bring you back to your beginning when you think of it again. We began jewelry…

  • Keep getting up!

    Keep getting up!

    I am learning that true, you can blame others for pushing you down, but you have yourself to blame for refusing to get up. September often had me revisiting where I was just 2 years ago. The skies were bleak and I have blamed others including myself for how things ended in the end. I’m…

  • Keep Africa rising!

    Keep Africa rising!

    I sat in a room that left me speechless yesterday. Also inspired. The theme was Africa rising and my ears and heart were in awe. They are still ringing and full of ideas even as we write this that I had to say a special thank you to the one who saw me enough to…

  • Keep dreams that rise!

    When they tried to bury our dreams to the ground, the dreams dug their way out of the ground, and with the strength of howling winds, they rose to the skies, with arms outstretched, boldly declaring, that dreams never die, that there are no dreams higher, than dreams rising out of the ashes, dreams rising…

  • Keep dreaming!

    Keep dreaming!

    I dreamt for work, then I dreamt for life, if you knew me, you would know why we dream whether work or life.

  • Keep your journey!

    Keep your journey!

    On the path to your dreams, you will come across fear, failure, doubts, and a heavy dose of despair. Yet, still you will walk as if there is no other path worth taking. It’s your dreams after all and even if it leads to despair, at least you are dreaming

  • Keep life still and still!

    however bright life is, however brilliant, however broken it maybe, however you bear it, we know she remembered the moment she stood at rivers edge, wondering what she would do differently, if this be yesterday, and she stood at the crossroads again, she would go with grace through the deep valley, knowing the sun shines…

  • Keep soaring!

    When the world is music and love and people, your ears would be open to people, their love and their music. I’m in a space where only listening to music will do. Only listening to those that birds play, and children sing, and heaven knows my soul needs to restore. We are also slowly setting…

  • Keep all the ways you begin!

    we are all driven by stories, possibilities within, the hopeless rampages of pain, or the stillness of morning dews, all of which are both life and writing. how we begin is all that matters so long as we begin.

  • Keep everything!

    Keep everything!

    They say everything is good. Every beginning, every moment, every fear, every strength, everything we will do is good. We meet every need at the right time. Every dream too. Like the moon we are full, when all we do is good. so keep everything.

  • Keep women!

    Keep women!

    Keep women always

  • Keep words!

    If ever there was a time to be  honest, to be truthful about how we feel today? I would begin with words…