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Keep the lessons of meltdowns!
Everyone that loves you know the outbursts is not in your voice. Hands flaring. Nose glaring. The outbursts are not by choice. Pitch getting loud, redirection leading to nowhere. These outbursts are only noise. For a mind overflowing with visions of sunsets, and Orion and dreams of a little star that could, even as tears…
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Keep Springtime gardening
My dad had a garden in the front of our home in Nigeria. He planted hibiscus flowers and aloe Vera plant. He loved the natural ingredients nestled within them. He made the most exquisite juices with them. Memories of the garden always flood my mind during Spring. We are getting ready to begin our gardening…
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Keep rising!
That which is deep within us rises. Through dreams upon dreams, lifts up. Through shrouds of darkness too, continues an ascent. Until unseen visions take to the air, like eagles and soar. I see mountains. No turning back. My week has been nothing short of chaotic. If I didn’t know I was obsessed with grant…
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Keep meatpies!
We are how we live. How we bake too, like meat pies made in love. How we dream, how we hope, through thick and thin plus time. I choose your eternity. Choose your smiles too. Something about the power of you. Keeps me smiling. Like how we smiled today. How I hope we smile tomorrow…
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Keep beautiful blackbird!
These words are just one to keep. ‘Black stands out best of all. Black is the most beautiful. Our body gleam all colors in the sun. Black is the most beautiful one.’ They are not mine. They belong to the late great Ashley Bryan. We read his book Beautiful Blackbird tonight. It’s a story about…
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Keep failure!
When you have so very far to go, like miles to go, do not be afraid to fail. No one who has ever dreamed, has ever set aside the possibilities of failure. Like a third eye, failure is always lurking around, always inclined to teach a lesson. Be firm still and know it’s going to…
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Keep community engaged conversations!
Audre Lorde has a litany for survival. ‘For those standing upon the constant edge of decisions crucial and alone…When the sun rises we are afraid it will not remain. When the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning…when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor…
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Keep oppressors language in mind!
‘My mouth is burning. I cannot touch you and this is the oppressor’s language.’ Adrienne Rich. I need to reach you with words. To make words that I use touch whatever site of joy or suffering you find yourself in. I find myself doing so with language that isn’t mine. Language that may not touch…
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Keep women!
Imagine being with women. Some as radiant as stars. Yet everyone different, with their own stories and testament. Eyes staring at each other, like a mirror. The strength unknown. The gift of opening. The tears that flow. From deep within. A space we let go. Like fruits falling. We let go and cry. The crying.…
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Keep knowing that which is in you is lit for them!
Call it dismissal. Call it ignorance. Call it visible invisibility. Call it being black and female in academia too. But know that your straight up sharp, single handled ignorance of my light, whatever you choose to call it, will not provoke this fire burning within. Not when we are legions. We are not bent or…
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Keep memories of my papa!
Through the eyes of our children, you continue. I see you, flickering your hair, smiling back, knowing that I know you live. You live. March 6th, 2009, we laid my father to rest. I think about him everyday. Anniversaries hit differently to. I wish he was alive. But these days, I am seeing through my…
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Keep sound meditations!
I went on a sound journey this evening. Something about sound meditation keeps drawing me in. I experienced it for the first time in person last week with Abigal and when she invited us to join her virtually, I couldn’t resist. See the past week has been extremely hectic, workwise. I have been in revision…
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