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Keep sleeping well Papa!
I am mesmerized by the impact of death. How it’s sting lingers even as years go by? Nearly 15 years ago today, my dearest Papa became my ancestor. Whenever this day appears yearly, we are transported to that very moment when death became our friend. I call it a friend because when you have lost…
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Keep writing beyond yourself!
“You have an interesting take on things. You ought to write a book.” These words were once spoke to the late great Toni Cade Bambara, author of one of my favorite books including the one simply entitled “Black Woman.” She once shared how she had been writing stories long before she could spell. She never…
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Keep words sweet as honey!
May your knowledge be like the Nile, your words blaze like a torch. May they build and plant. And like honey, remain sweet. May your words be like the morning star. Shining through the world like a full moon. May they be like roses in springtime. Lillies besides a stream. May they be like olives,…
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Keep being like ether with the stories you write!
Some omens are loud. So bear with me in these hours of silence. They have hidden notes wrapped up in hidden stories that turn hearts to stone. Our hearts are full of stone. They look too like dancers dis-inherited in the middle of a dance, hanging with their lame foot in the air, like a…
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Keep writing!
I started this year saying I would write. First for me and next for anyone out there. The truth. Writing is hard. You need a muse, a context, is it fiction, non fiction, something has to keep you going. It’s been 20 days of writing and let’s just say I finally have my muse. Thank…
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Keep this fall, this rise.
If there is one thing I am keeping today, it’s to be like the iron man. We also know to fall. For how we begin, few know. If we are quiet, pray. Where we come from, no one knows. How far we have worked. That’s for us too. How we are built. Still we will…
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Keep who we belong too…
The devil almost as in almost had me that Onyelo reminded me of who we belong to. That and the fact that we have legions. So no weapon formed against us shall prosper. It won’t work. We know who we belong to. They have rosaries. Nothing will succeed. We are protecting our peace…there will be…
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Keep reflecting even if on trees.
I saw an exercise on reflection today that asked that you imagine yourself as a tree. It asked that you take a deep breath, close your eyes, open it, then draw the type of tree you represent. For me these days, I am like trees bare and open in the winter. How trees survive the…
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Keep having dreams!
Dreams are like the wind. They go on forever. Searching for truth in between stars that know the point of dreams. I have a dream. They remind you of things you can’t touch. Like a gentle breeze, a wishful sigh, a rambling mind, a distant sky. I have a dream The things though you touch,…
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Keep nurturing you!
If you nurture all the grows within you. Carefully tend to what makes you live this one life you have. The universe itself will marvel at all you become. They will open up for you and gift you the moon and all you need for your journey through life. These days, I am seeing the…
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Keep how to free somebody else!
When you are free? When you have seen the deepest valleys and somehow you walked through to the light. When your cup starts to overflow in the sight of your enemies. When they return too like as if you were Joseph and Joseph was you. When you have know how not to be afraid when…
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Keep knowing your worth!
There I was, with women like me, reminding me that kindness is to be protected. The depths of your worth too. People are people and there will be doorways that belong to you and them. Some doors will lead you down a path of pain, confuse your worth with pain and leave you feeling confused…
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