Tag: children
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Keep your parenting!
The real work of motherhood begins when the day you never dreamed off arrives. For me, it was this week. I have been holding on to my daughter being my first baby for so long that I secretly refused to see her as the teenager she was becoming. I have been in denial since I…
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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 walking still!
Some paths will grow damp and uncomfortable and you will have no choice but to walk through. And when your feet get heavy, find something soft and solemn but walk.
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Keep what makes you lazy at times!
Near lazy rivers, you will find rest, find you belong in spaces lazy, like rivers.
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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 being a child of blessings!
A child becoming better than you is a blessing. Today, I learnt about the blessings I bring. Keep this. Edo language.
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Keep knowing your strength!
When you know your inner strength, no matter how hard they try, the world will never blow your light out. Katherine Dunham.
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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 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 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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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 