Tag: children
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Keep meatpies!
We are how we live. How we bake too, like meat pies made in love. How we dream, how we hope, through thick and thin plus time. I choose your eternity. Choose your smiles too. Something about the power of you. Keeps me smiling. Like how we smiled today. How I hope we smile tomorrow…
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Keep beautiful blackbird!
These words are just one to keep. ‘Black stands out best of all. Black is the most beautiful. Our body gleam all colors in the sun. Black is the most beautiful one.’ They are not mine. They belong to the late great Ashley Bryan. We read his book Beautiful Blackbird tonight. It’s a story about…
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Keep memories of my papa!
Through the eyes of our children, you continue. I see you, flickering your hair, smiling back, knowing that I know you live. You live. March 6th, 2009, we laid my father to rest. I think about him everyday. Anniversaries hit differently to. I wish he was alive. But these days, I am seeing through my…
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Keep moments with God part 4!
Maybe it was the cold. I have never liked the easy wind of cold winter days. Maybe it was the place. I never understood the bewitching charms of Augusta. Maybe it was the month. I have always ignored the swiftness of February. Or maybe it was you. Now, I truly wonder if it was you.…
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Keep moments with God, part 3!
Ada Zion’s legion, gathered today, watching God, the guide among them, rejoiced in thanksgiving, giving thanks. Something about blessings. Something about people. Something about love. God, Thank you for this love.
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Keep moments with God, part 2!
You came in the afternoon. Around four, forty-five. On two, seventeen, seventeen. Daddy was there the entire time. Just him, you and Gillian, our nurse practitioner with a smile that never fades. Only three of us. She looked at Dad and asked if he was ready. He smiled. She knew he was. He wore the…
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Keep praising children who know love!
We remind ourselves, each day, all children are precious. Black, Brown, White, no matter the color, or creed, all children, whether strange or foreign, are precious. Recently, I have been struggling with the reality that some children have nothing precious or valuable within them. I often wonder too what happened to them that at their…
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Keep speaking love!
And when I speak of love, I speak of you. I speak of how you emptied yourself in me, one fine Friday evening and nine months later, we birthed a queen so powerful like the amazons of Dahomey, Queens of Nimo. I speak of our boys, all three of them with beauty so numberless, wisdom…
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Keep moments with God!
Some moments linger on, like a song, playing on. Like the moment he arrived. We call him Olisa, but truly he is our beloved. Our guide through life. Remember, the $10k lottery, from over 1100 entries. Olisa won that last year at his school. His ways are not ours. The words out of his mouth…
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Keep keeping this list of things to keep!
So this is what it means, to be a woman full of lists, of things to keep, in a time of a pandemic, every single thought, sound and insane. Mother to a girl named Belle and boys who never met the one for whom anger never met his soul. Daughter to the one for whom…
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Keep imaginations
I have been writing and thinking about why we write. This time, my daughter and my son are my muse. I listened intently as she told me during dinner about her desire to start her own company, one where she would simply write and illustrate all the books she wanted to write. Currently she is…
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Keep celebrating heros like Dr. King, local heros like Dr. Mati!
I am all about light. All about celebrating those who build and sustain it. Those unafraid to give a little light, to make their light shine too. Those prepared to do their part to dispel darkness, to become a voice for the voiceless, to love as love does, choosing love or fighting for justice like…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 