Tag: Black Women
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Keep your game, your system!
I am learning that there are games we can’t play. Some stacked against us so that the only option left is to simply not play. You can choose to play a different game. One where you simply observe how the games are being played and maybe hope that one day, soon enough, you will be…
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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 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 the storms and pain, they teach how to be creative!
Looking back, it was good that I went through pain, good that storms came my way. They both taught me how to stand. So now, I consider myself fortunate when all sorts of storms come my way. I say a silent prayer in thanks, as they remind me that God is still using all of…
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Keep all your failures!
Consider yourself lucky if only unheard sounds joined to stop your flow through air. They call it failure, defeat, disappointment, even how your deficiency stopped you short from a priceless victory. What holds, what binds you still isn’t the failure bearing down your broken bones. Rather all of them, the bones, the air, the unheard…
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Keep Mati, our public health hero!
Mati, I see you as one of the great ones. I see you as one who has sat before fire, with hands that have glowed in deep flame. Your face was truly sculptured by smoke, and your eyes have truly wandered around as your voice rose, like humming bees in the middle of summer, your voice…
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Keep smiling!
These days we are encountering the beauty of life, smiling as we sit and dream, uncovering the wonder within, letting our souls wander too, as we let our sons of color, like sun and its color, light up the dark. If there is ever a moment to love humans, as tricky and mean as we…
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Keep the memories of a pandemic!
5 years later, our hair is slowly greying, bones are still wide, and life is running by without a care. From out the dark, at the beginning of the pandemic, words started to emerge from deep within as we trembled through the world. At first, they were concerned about health care workers, all those literally…
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Keep Olisadubem or God being your guide always!
We call him Olisa. His full name if you ask is Olisadubem. But everyone calls him Olisa. The idea of naming our child after God is a treasure we will forever keep. He is as God is. Full of himself, as his ways are not ours. Still we know and see God in him, pray…
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Keep these days!
Days have minds of their own. Some days I’ll sit and listen as children sing, play, fight, then sing again. Other days, I’ll watch as they live peacefully, teaching the power of love, with blankets draped around their bodies. These days even as we wear this shadow called life, I hope to always to watch,…
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Keep your name!
If you ask, I’ll say freedom, dreams, failure, perseverance, love, community, are the reasons why I do it, give names to the vision, my papa and Onyelo, plus mama, saw when they first named me, framed me, for things good.
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 