Tag: children
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Keep writing letters!
My son repeats himself always. He is on the spectrum so we expect this. But these days I have been working to channel all his repetition into something useful. Enter writing letters. Today he woke up saying the same things he wanted yesterday, his toys for Christmas. I told him to take a piece of…
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Keep being limitless like a rainbow!
He drew a rainbow. A rainbow for me. He drew it up to show that I was a good mom. A loving one too. A rainbow, for a mom, good and loving. This is the recent image from a boy who just a month ago drew himself laying beside a pool of blood. I stood…
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Keep a grant writing vice!
My dreams keep dreaming. As if no ending is allowed. As if only poetry will do. As if all the alternating stress, those that pass unknown, those things light and heavy I embrace, everything they bring, like air, are worthy, profound, like breathing, this air of new dreams again. And so we hurry, back to…
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Keep going through your deepest darkness.
I needed to go through hell once to understand my worth. Hell helped me find my vision for the next years and decades of my life. From time to time, attacks will come your way, and they are like an obligation, a desire for you to know struggle. In my hell, I kept coming back…
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Keep smiling!
Toni Morrison and her son Slade Morrison have a book about mean people I love to read to my kids. It’s my keep for today. To them, people are mean. They frown, they shout, even whisper behind peoples back. Family members are also mean. Fathers, mothers, grandparents, siblings, all of us have mean tendencies that…
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Keep the little things in mind!
My son attends a school that was severely damaged by the floods that came through Saint Louis in July. Their entire basement was gutted and all the rooms they use for their sensory activities were destroyed. We started school a week later than most and had to readjust everything with classrooms now in a different…
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Keep knowing that failure is an option!
Failure is always an option. That’s my mantra these days. I have failed in so many aspects of my life. The one that I keep doing these past days is motherhood. No, mothering is not easy. It has never been. It takes effort and patience and moving in some direction even if it seems like…
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Keep the tenderness and love of sons!
Like mother, like son, the one we named after God, lives like his mother. Always talking, always questioning, if it doesn’t feel right, he will be the first to ask. If it comes to his minds, words will be out and free. Like mother, like son, the one we named after God, sees the world…
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Keep knowing that life na je je!
Pour me juice mom, please pour some juice in my cup. This was the sentence that jolted me back to writing. I was in the middle of sorting groceries that I just bought. Exhausted and still trying to figure what to eat for dinner. My five year old son had other things on his mind.…
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Keep fighting for those that matter!
Who are the people you fight for? I am learning about them everyday. Not the typical, my family, those I love and care about, but the people you are willing to go the distance for. Slay dragons or catch a grenade for. The people for whom, risking your life is expected. You will do that…
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Keep grump, groan, growl!
Once we suffered their desires, camps where children play, not childish games but adult ways. Now we grump, groan, growl. Not as they want, but to let our wild moods out, Let these feelings be. We read bell hooks today. Stood by the mirror and let her words slide through us. There will be days…
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Keep places accessible
Some places are inaccessible. For those with heads like velvet blackness, skins smooth like the color night. Some places are inaccessible. For those with eyes darkly clear, those who look the sun in the face, unblinded. Some places are inaccessible. For names wrapped with African-ness like a shawl, names like Olisadubem, or the ones for…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 