Tag: children
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Keep always the start of a new school year!
Even the morning breeze sigh at the start of a new school year. And what will this year bring, we all wonder to ourselves. Will it bring joy, will it bring growth, will it bring anything trivial like the ease of morning breeze or anything sweet like a joyful squeeze from hands tiny and full…
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Keep this Bright Star!
I love balance with life. Where something stands, Achebe once noted, something else will stand beside it. I’m a researcher, a professor of medicine, a public health scientist and one focused on sustaining evidence based interventions in resource limited settings. It’s my head. I am also a mother, a wife, Onyelo’s Isi-baby, a sister, a…
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Keep this peace!
Here is the truth. Run across a bridge. Inhale its links. Exhale its air. Joy will be there, inner peace and golden trumpets too, where skies are grey.
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Keep simple things.
It was simple to begin, simple to set a date, make a plan, let each other lead, keep things simple. The new year was beginning, all things in the beginning seem simple. Set a date, make a plan, listen, learn, see as they lead. What is not simple: four diseases in one, four conditions in…
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Keep this gift we gift back to God always!
Some describe you as skin, a luminous embrace. Some describe you as water, with your enduring grace. Some describe you as earth, seeing how you are endlessly unfazed, but I call you our soul, our son, with an unblinking gaze. Happy Birthday, our gift we gift back to God always. Your name is all you…
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Keep this appreciation!
Here is the thing I heard today: Appreciation is an application for more things to come. So I am simply showing some appreciation for all the ways life remains like a cup that overflows with every single word you read here. You are all appreciated for continuing this journey with me.
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Keep the liquidity of legacy!
Remembering the changes that shape one’s life and legacy. Even if things change, our legacy will remain forever.
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Keep all that makes you create!
I have been in class the past 4 weeks. It ended today hence my absence here. Ben Okri once shared that the most authentic thing about being human, is our ability to create. We can create, overcome what we create, endure as we create, transform what we create, love all we create, and still be…
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Keep Dr. H. Phillip Venable Memorial Park!
In a town called Creve Coeur lies a park that should have housed a home, that should have been full of black people jocking and jiving, singing or playing trumpets on Sunday afternoons long after a sermon at church. Dr. H. Phillip Venable, would have been sitting outside of his front porch, catching the breeze,…
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Keep dreams at a park!
We went to Pioneer Park today. A small park on Taille Street, off Manchester road. Four children were fascinated by the playground that lined the park. Three boys and a girl wearing a red tie dye shirt. Tall oaks lined the park. About 21 if sitting on a black park bench across from the restroom.…
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Keep the knowledge and birthday of our Belle.
I would liken her to a star. Not those up in the skies, but the stars within. I would liken her to the moon. Not the kind that appears in the sky at night. But the moon within. I would liken her to the sun. Not the one that shines so brightly on a clear…
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Keep knowing that being fearless still with your funds are enough!
I am learning these days, that everything beautiful about the world we live in is enough. That’s what Toni Morrison would want us to remember. With the craziness of a day, even the crazy things we experience is enough. Like our fearless funds. Sometimes words too are not needed. No need to speak or share…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 