Tag: children
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Keep all the ways children see themselves!
Noontime or nighttime, at any hour in between, one of them doodles away, with no noise, no sound, no distractions, nothing at all. Then slowly, like the first drop of rain, something emerges. A lake’s song, earth day, getting wise on words, will bring eyes full of peace. As the whole scene plays out, in…
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Keep dreams heavy.
That time I thought tough times last, I went closer to the edge without falling over. Surely God had a hand in this as well as Papa and mama Ocha and of course the one named Onyelo. So, I stood and my stance as the one with the golden hair said, is like no other.…
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Keep enjoying the little things in life…
I have heard these words said often; “We can’t control what happens to us, but we can control how we react. These days and in pushing past storms, I am choosing to enjoy the little things I love, the glimpse of a glowing moon at night, the songs of birds in the morning. I am…
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Keep walking through your storm!
We don’t get to pick our storms but we can choose how we go walk through them. Choose the armor we put on to battle the storms. Choose the legion that stands with us to defeat the storm. I am walking. I found myself in a storm recently, found myself reading and reading the reminder…
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Keep all the ways we prevent and end HIV for girls and women!
We spent the day remembering Hydeia Broadbent, remembering the first time we learnt about HIV, remembering lessons, if any, we remember about preventing it for ourselves and other girls and women like us. Today is National HIV/AIDS awareness day for girls and women and so we spent the day remembering all those who have paved…
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Keep dreaming and dreaming again!
I begin from a space, that I hope you will one day use as your own. A space that is transitional is nature, a work in progress too. In August if 2021, we got an early morning text that stated that my sister-in law had died from cervical cancer. My memory of that day is…
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Keep this gathering of women with eyes tiny like us!
I’m inspired by the feast of women I saw the other day. Those black like me. Those that begin from the womb and continue long past a day. I know our imperfections are nothing, that our light is everything, that we gather loving those we would give our everything. I have seen where women build…
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Keep love for Olisa’s birthday!
The chance to love you, to know you, to grow with you In our darkest hour Our brightest days Are the reason Why we open Like wings for you. We call you Olisa. The one we named after God. The one we used to ask for his guidance. We are afterall nothing without God. The…
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Keep love!
Love springs from somethings. Sometimes a whisper, a warm embrace, a simple card, all can pull a heart and make it leap. The idea of a day dedicated to love has always kept me alive. Partly because I remember how love came to be for me. I remember its first touch, its first kiss, its…
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Keep perspective!
We watched AFCON match today and saw our beloved country loose a game. Then we literally clutched our pearls with the SuperBowl until Kansas Chiefs won. All of this had me thinking about perspective. Failure is always inevitable with anything. So too is success and the hurdles along the way. But perspective is like a…
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Keep illuminating your presence!
You do not have to listen. You do not have to wait to hear me speak. You only have to open your eyes and let your eyes see what it sees. Tell me about hurdles, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile, the world will go on, days will go on and everyone will…
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Keep the cycle of dreams!
They say we are never old when it comes to the dance we know. I agree which is why I begin today with the thought: what odd dreams do you have? How have you watched the universe conspire to make them a reality? A cycle of sorts. Only this week, I spoke about a dream…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 