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Keep the journey!
Who remembers life’s journey? It’s ups and down. All the turn around. Children of the earth.
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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 remembering how the journey began!
Say we met, on a Friday evening over drinks and pomegranates. Say we talked, for an hour or two, then walked around looking for food. Say we watched the evening sunset, the night creatures rise, as two hearts open to the possibilities of life with no regrets. See the first day I met you, our…
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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 this freedom gathering ‘
Memories of our gathering resurface every 2 years, around the 4th of July. You dressed in red, blue, white. We draped in orange wrappers and dark green blouses the color of evergreen leaves. Plus it’s as if we are both celebrating our independence, our freedom, only difference is that we free and you are not…
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Keep those who see the light and stars within!
Where do you begin a poem about women in light. At the same time how do you begin with those unafraid of the wind. Those that understand the essence of rain. Some women will make you grieve, others will help you release, yet some will remind you of how to reach the happiness within. Some…
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Keep the grace of scarves!
There is a picture of my grandmother that I return to often. It’s a black and white picture with a white scarf resting half way through her head. The colors of the scarves are locked in time for me, except that they seem white next to a head full of black hair. I return often…
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Keep these thoughts on writing.
Underneath skin, we pull each other in, and reveal things within. We explore edges, those without limits, those that discern boundaries within. Yet the boundaries, and the limits, the edges underneath skin, unfold moments where words are like the layers of cells beneath. The word was writing. The goal was to write about how I…
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Keep the joy of eating jollof rice together!
My jollof rice is joyful, so it’s heavenly taste with my people. Every Sunday afternoon is joyful. So the smiles of my people. Joyful also are our gathering. Joyful also are these memories with my people. I have been reading Braiding Sweetgrass and the idea of the holder and the braider reminded me of what…
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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 the memories of LIGHT Year 3 and Rest in Peace, Dr. Ivis M. Richardson!
Our LIGHT festival just ended. I was supposed to close and inform people about the plans for next year. I didn’t. I couldn’t. Our last speaker, Christell Roach lost her grandmother, Dr Ivis M. Richardson yesterday. She could have cancelled, she could have called and told us about her death. We would have understood. My…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 