Tag: journey
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Keep magical moments!
The air tonight is magical and free. Dark skies light up the night as I sit waiting for words to say of this moment together. Maybe it’s the gentle breeze. It’s so soft. I am afraid the air won’t linger through the night. Then I recall your voice, the sweet communion of our embrace. You…
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Keep being young, gifted, and black!
Lorraine Hansberry once wrote about how the Negro writer stands surrounded by whirling elements of the world. She noted that the writer stands neither on the fringe nor utterly involved: just a prime observer waiting poised for inclusion…yet, the world awaits our work. It is from this perspective that I intend write about the world…
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Keep kids inspiring each other.
My first son hates to read. Not all books. Just the ones that have to do with school. Give him a Dogman book or anything with space and he will quietly read and read. But homework, or anything from Journey is a pain. Today’s assignment was a chapter in his Journey book. All he had…
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Keep Osodieme or a word now gone due to cervical cancer!
Her story, like many, are untold. Her pain, unknown. Her cervix, unforgettable. But her death, free. Think of the depths she took. Think of the blood she hid. Think of the control she fought. Then think of the words unspoken. Lusting for life, she only spoke to friends. Insisting her cervix was a private affair.…
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Keep the cross.
Something about today, Good Friday, keeps me grateful. To see him on the cross. To see hands outstretched. Head bent to the side. To see thorns like a crown pierced to his head. To see the nails, hands and feet nailed to the cross. To see the blood, the body, all the pain I know…
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Keep leading!
To lead, when one has never led, is courageous. Risky and daring, but with courage. To see it’s outcomes, it’s possibilities, so rich, is divine. To know that I lead this, keeps me on my knees. I am nothing but the grace of God and so full of thanks today for the risk, for daring…
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Keep dreams!
Dreams begin here. With people like you. Sitting and pondering. Drinking and eating. Laughing and living. Loving and living life, our way. A dream, to sit by the ocean and think for self. To live among others like you keeping things worth keeping. To simply live. All will do. For where dreams begins, life lives…
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Keep young people!
April 8th The scene was full of brilliance. Young people answering to their names. They see their light. They know their season too. This is it. See them rise, past all expected. Entering their destiny without error. Standing in rooms they own. Full of grace for all they know. Blooming on their own, like a…
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Keep Lagos!
Lagos. May your roads never be bad. That’s what they say when you arrive. I say may your days never be bad. May they never. It’s been 2 years and this never gets old. Lagos girl, born and raised. Feels good to be home.
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Keep stillness
We are off. Wheels are off. Things feel light. Maybe it’s the air. The feel of lightness in the air. Either way we are off. I beg the air to be still. It keeps speaking of peace. I know. But still be still.
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Keep knowing that we are all storytellers!
I see things differently with each passing day. I know things differently too. Where one thing stands, another thing will stand right beside it. That was Achebe’s thing. I get that. Also that the storyteller is the eagle’s feather. It’s all he spoke about. I am also seeing that our focus on certain things like…
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Keep blooming in Spring like Callery Pear Tree!
I hear you are very persistent. Prone to reinvade even when removed. I hear you are highly resilient. Thick dense branches push out others who compete with you for water, soil, space, sun. I hear some call you invasive. Birds love your fruit, spread your seeds and you rise up unbidden again. But I see…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 