Tag: learning
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Keep days of love!
And this is what love is: the sounds of a new born this 20th day of February, the same day four years ago, water rained down from above, same day our body began a journey to healing, still the day udara filled our heart with joy, this day we saw colors, wild, orange and full.…
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Keep Olisadubem or God being your guide always!
We call him Olisa. His full name if you ask is Olisadubem. But everyone calls him Olisa. The idea of naming our child after God is a treasure we will forever keep. He is as God is. Full of himself, as his ways are not ours. Still we know and see God in him, pray…
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Keep these days!
Days have minds of their own. Some days I’ll sit and listen as children sing, play, fight, then sing again. Other days, I’ll watch as they live peacefully, teaching the power of love, with blankets draped around their bodies. These days even as we wear this shadow called life, I hope to always to watch,…
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Keep your name!
If you ask, I’ll say freedom, dreams, failure, perseverance, love, community, are the reasons why I do it, give names to the vision, my papa and Onyelo, plus mama, saw when they first named me, framed me, for things good.
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Keep eyes open!
We are taking the best dreams, and the best ideas, and a girl whose mama’s name is Onyelo to open eyes and her grandma who knew Onyelo to tender carefully this little light of hers and here she comes, isioma, an Onicha-ugbo treasure, Celestine’s Obi and may the art in the love that framed you,…
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Keep these STARS who know there are no rules!
These days we see all rules can be broken. Institutions broken. Though we wondered how they would apply the rules, we watched as they applied the rules. Our STARS came brilliant, bright, knowing these are different times, uncertain ones, but their time. We left fully bright, in awe of their brilliance. These may be uncertain…
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Keep being STARS!
And so we begin. Welcome to STAR cohort 3 where to be a star, is to do work that Toni Morrison would say is beautiful, powerful, but should also work. It should have something in it that enlightens, something in it that opens doors and points the ways. Let’s Go STARS.
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Keep the art of a headwrap for mental wellness!
On Sunday February 2nd, as part of our commitment to building loving communities in Saint Louis for Saint Louis, our team held our first installation on the art of headwrap for mental wellness. Headwraps have always held a special place in my soul. My mother’s head is forever wrapped. Her mother’s head too. I remember…
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Keep living for grace unfiltered!
These days, whenever anyone asks how we are coping, I say with joy, with grace, with fortitude, with light. I share that those who know they belong to a higher power, can never cower when trouble comes. This is how they begin, in the middle of chaos. They know to get their wings ready, know…
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Keep communities!
In loving communities, my Nnem would say, you enter always to learn, but depart serving others. Keep this!
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Keep looking up!
If I had the right words, the right tone, the right answers, or the right feelings about the past week, it would seem as if things were indeed right. Nothing about these times we find ourselves in is right. More and more, are understanding that this isn’t a sprint and elections have consequences. Yet there…
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Keep things slow!
We wondered whether the colors that pass through the skies, some blue, some white, and some grey on occasion are the songs hearts that know grace sing. If so, we are singing and the skies are blazing at the sight of the evening sun, at the thought of things being slow…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 