Tag: academia
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Keep the common dreams of a dreamer!
In moments of stress, or moments of strife, through periods of chaos, or periods of change, when life becomes unpredictable, days and nights too, unpredictable, when the voices and the places that once nurtured you, turn on you, whether storms erupt or your strong purpose erodes, no matter whether your candle burns it self out…
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Keep words that echo louder!
If words echo, if they do so without losing their beat, rhythm, pulse, or wind, our eyes will close. This last day of summer, before kids return to school, I closed my eyes, and words echoed in my soul
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Keep friendships full of grace!
Some friendships age like fine wine. Life may get in the way, but every connecting and reconnecting rekindles life like it never missed a bit. I spent sometime in the presence of a sister from another mother. We walked miles, laughed long, held silent games with some noisemakers and then ate ice cream that made…
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Keep being green!
Dead trees don’t produce fruits, but some fruits on dead trees, stay green. My kids and I walked by branches from a tree dead. My daughter noted that dead trees often do not produce fruits, yet these branches were full of fruits still green. It got me wondering, how are we staying green in a…
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Keep soulful moment
Some moments require you to not be a stranger to your soul, to live each day like it’s your first, to save yourself no matter the cost, and look at the sky every night even if for a minute.
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Keep those that guide you!
It’s been over 20 years since we met and everyday seems so sterling. I am learning to recognize and respect the place where I feel so cherished and secure and in my academic life, it’s in his presence. I am able soar because he told me I could. Told me too that who was I…
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Keep Ranyenna or happy birthday our gift we give back to God!
If you see him, it’s like you see God. In his purest form, there is clarity with life, clarity too with however long or short days may be. If you ask, there is love. The type decisive and smooth with a pulse and delight that is beyond good. With him, everything about a day is…
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Keep Nnem love!
Some people love me. Not in moderation. But the kind of love that will lift you up in the air if necessary. Some people love me. Not in pieces, but love that keeps you full and whole. Some people love me. The kind of love that requires you let it be known if only to…
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Keep pain through storms!
When you cease to ache, even your pain is like a Lilly or a Rose. Something inside will stir you up to rise and stand tall for a while like a tree or maybe a sliver man looking up to the sky. You will say how everything seems like a remedy or a lesson, of…
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Keep all you possibilities!
Some possibilities sleep for years lurking behind shadows until they grow big enough to birth their inner glory.
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Keep joy
If by chance you see things joyful, I pray you ask it to bring light to you. We surrounded ourselves with joy today and truly every single moment was full of light. Keep your days of joy…
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Keep your blessings!
These days, we are bringing goodness by blessing everything we see, blessing everything we think, blessing everything we feel, just so this air counts. Thank you Korede House for another wonderful evening with STARS!
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 