Tag: learning
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Keep, keep, your stories!
Some of us have been blessed or cursed to see beyond ourselves. Our only mercy is memory, but our regret is hell. Sometimes you don’t survive whole, sometimes you survive in parts. The key is the attempt and the surrender to memories that help you see beyond yourself. I am in a space where storytelling…
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Keep leaning not on your own!
I have seen wide eyes that mirrored my soul. Daring heights with wonder still nestled in my soul. They say hope is a thing you never do alone, even if you die alone. Find it all the way down in yourself, where it can never be judged like children, who tell stories, all on their…
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Keep these moments of wonder!
I saw an old picture recently and I looked at the girl intently. She wore a pink shirt, loosely buttoned. Her hair in braids, seemingly old. She had a twinkle in her eyes, with lips curved up in a smile. And there was wonder and love, plus beauty and awe in eyes sparkling with excitement…
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Keep being open!
To see the door, at least once. Amidst fears of what could be. To see the door and debate whether to open or leave it close. Before the rustling winds that blow. Before trees fighting to be still. See those holding on to dreams. Choose to open the door. With the courage of a day…
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Keep the high points in life!
If true happiness consists of getting out of oneself, then for the past three years, I have been out. I have gotten out and these days, I plan to not only get out, but stay out with everything I keep. This to me is the heart of the matter. The idea of knowing who I…
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Keep “how to eat a poem.”
I am in love with Eve Merriam’s “How to eat a poem.” It’s my keep for the day. Keep it for yourself.
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Keep surrendering to your dreams!
I did a thing today. Surrendered my dreams to universe. They say there are two moments that define a person’s life. The day they are born and the day they realize why. I found my why today. Like Kwesi Brew’s poem, I know which road to take….
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Keep persisting like Dr. Kariko!
I imagine the roots of life are buried deep. Within women like Dr. Katalin Karikó. I imagine life tried so hard to trash all the ways a womb once thrived for her. I imagine Dr. Katalin Kariko’s life, from the womb till these day, was worth every vocabulary for her struggle. Her early days, full…
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Keep funding your dreams!
My destiny is mine. It has always been from the day I was named Isioma. It’s the reason why I resign from places and people who keep me stale. It’s the reason why dreaming is a form of resistance to me. See where you are obsessed with one grant or one class, I’m on to…
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Keep turning on your own, for your own!
More than once we take memories, those hard and true, those painful and fruitful, we take them all and use them to blossom like tall Iroko trees. We are woman. Ordinary, but woman. We are all of life, surrounded by the love for life. We are pictures, perfect, broken, but pictures capturing memories, of times…
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Keep being human!
There are good people. Everywhere. He said there are good people. Some even kind, some thoughtful, some considerate and some committed to the cause of these damn children. Find them, no matter how small. Find a group of people committed to our children and see how they change the world. We went to our first…
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Keep flying, this soul!
Today, this soul got a chance to fly. Beyond creatures seeped in vanity. This soul got a chance to fly. Beyond a past steeped in illusions. This soul got a chance to fly. Beyond all the things that once weighed it down. This soul got a chance to fly. Like a single blazing star, reaching…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 