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Keep sleeping in peace until we meet again!
They say that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. With your family, you took the greatest step and we will forever be thankful that you were our first love. Continue to sleep well Papa until we meet again. Ps. These times of uneasiness are when you lean in to all…
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Keep this gift of light!
Light’s colorful tint, brightens everyday, reminding us to repeatedly fill our minds with light. Everything about these days make us live for these days, those days too when Papa first named us light. Keep it.
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Keep the delight of failures!
To my failures, those recent and those over a decade ago, those big and small, all of you bold yet with no hope, know that you are my delight, my highest degree of satisfaction, my pleasure, to all the ways you make me feel content, to all the struggles and joy you bring, to all…
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Keep grants for self-recovery!
bell hooks in Sisters of the yam, talked about the need for black women to engage in self-recovery. She was writing from the space of the continued devaluation of black womanhood, the extreme difficulties that make it hard for us to even develop a positive outlook of ourselves. Not only are we pitted against each…
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Keep moments of doubt with your dreams!
If you ever find yourself, unafraid of the coming storm, prepare then to thunder, waken up senses, burrow roots unshaken, even as life moves in disarray. Then take a deep breath, remember dreams, then begin, only this time, with more love and light deepening. I shared my dreams with four people today. All of them…
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Keep being polemical with your words!
A single word can lead the mind to traces of contemplation. They are like silences that take over, holding you uncomfortable for so long. Like fault lines and shifting plates that require you to invade the part of your brain where words are like air, forcing you to breathe in, breathe out. A couple of…
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Keep a full moon!
Surrounded by light, we, bend, break, then build, dreams, ours now, theirs tomorrow, we breathe in soft thoughts we breathe out blind spots of ebony souls in the middle of the night whose arch is as sublime as the brilliant moon.
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Keep going!
When I was thirteen or fourteen and didn’t know much about life, I thought people lived forever. Then I was young and never tired, always talked and always wondered, why good people died. The gift of death, like the gift of time, was unkind towards little girls that talked, little girls like me who knew…
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Keep this peace!
At a time like this, peace embraced me kindly, this was as my kid cried about nightmares and another fiddled with the headrest, another slept gently by that the pain that once dulled my head gave room to the soft feeling of peace nurtured by the one we gift back always.
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Keep the idea of delegating however hard with your grants!
I had a meeting yesterday with a dear friend that was checking into my grant submission goals for the year. They are of course a lot and insane and we are so ready to dream. One thing she noted was that I needed to delegate. I said if you have been burned like me, like…
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Keep reflecting!
With my people, in the pure light of day, or following snowstorm, you see, we shine…We are like lamp. All we see is reflected.
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Keep being grass!
If you find me at the brink of giving up, at the point of forgetting love, at a basement with no light, at dawn with no song, at a gathering with no tears, at the edge with no words, at a Red Sea with no faith at a desert with no thirst at a devotion…
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