Tag: journey
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Keep we too sing America!
Langston Hughes has a poem entitled ‘I Too.’ It’s based on Walt Whitman’s classic ‘I Hear America Singing.’ For some reason, I saw the poem today while sifting through my Langston books. It got me wondering, and with all we have endured this year in 2021, just how would America sing? For sure, she would…
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Keep vespers (III) or sleep well Archbishop Desmond Tutu!
I have always loved the beatitudes. Something about being blessed keeps me hopeful and you Archbishop Tutu were the hope so many people relied on. This evening prayer rolls out of my mind with ease because you lived a life like Jesus prayed in the beatitudes. You were indeed blessed, and truly happy, rejecting evil,…
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Keep the beauty of chaos!
I am gliding into 2022 with an undying commitment to simplicity. Like bundles of sticks, I intend to find strength with those that choose to stand together with me. It’s a commitment after all and you are either in or out as I follow my star. I am also prepared to endure all that life…
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Keep 8 days of Christmas fun!
Yesterday we began an adventure into 8 days of Christmas fun. In fact, we are living our lives through a book written and illustrated by my daughter. All I can say is that because of her, my world is Belle. Like Lotanna Belle, there are no limits. She is one who opens our hearts to…
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Keep asking why?
Everything changes, the moment you hear the word. Life flashes through in a second. None of us can cheat life. None can escape the battle of death. I have tried to understand 2021. Fast runners never win their race. A fish still gets caught in a net. No matter how hard I tried, I still…
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Keep imagination like STL City Foundry!
Imagination is a transformative force. It enhances, sustains, and frees mind hungry to unleash their dreams. I have been hungry for awhile. Imagination has been filling my soul. It has helped and continues to help me rethink all I thought I knew about a people, their ways, their heritage, even their landscape fully and freely.…
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Keep voicing unpleasant truths about the pandemic!
Let no one silence or suppress your truth. Whether unpleasant or uncomfortable. May no one stifle or suffocate your significance or shared responsibilities. Scam or strangle your sensibilities or collective senses with lies. As you strive for uncomfortable representations beyond unpleasant shadows. Rather may you continue to connect and commune. Reveal and reveal. Every unpleasant…
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Keep the eternal gifts of bell hooks!
Sixty-nine seems like a very odd age to rest. My dad left at sixty-nine. I have never felt completely at ease with it. We are all supposed to have 70 years. 80 years if we are strong. So leaving at 69 just doesn’t sit right with me. bell hooks left at 69. I am sure…
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Keep vespers (II) or an evening prayer for bell hooks!
I took my time to write this. Good people are remembered as a blessing. So I wanted to take my time to remember your blessings. For you have indeed blessed us all bell. Your blessings give life like a fountain of water. So I knew I had to take my time to write this. I…
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Keep memories that linger!
Some memories linger on like melodies that ring, long after memories are gone. Some people linger on, touching everything, your life, your work, your clothes, your mind, touching you like air. Today we closed a chapter to sweet memories that will forever linger, long after the times in Saint Louis come to an end. Today…
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Keep digging up your light!
It has been a hazy week for me. Like the terrible fog we saw this morning in STL. I started the week in stride, with great news and almost immediately, bad news followed. I imagine this is what happens when you let the bad in. They reflect no stars and can keep you down, if…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 