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Keep what you see!
‘What you see is what you are and what you will become.’ Ben Okri said it best in his book ‘Astonishing the Gods.’ These days, what I am seeing is beyond me. They are truly wonderful things. Things that make one’s heart full. My heart is indeed full. I tried to dwell on it over…
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Keep blooming!
There is beauty, grace too in carnations that bloom. Though slow settings at first, time will strain for attention and only then will each opening be sublime.
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Keep your history!
To a girl or a boy alone, know that you have a people, with their own histories, their own stories, their own mysteries, their own adversaries, their own victories, their own jewelries, their own galleries, their own sceneries, their own groceries, their own factories, their own sanctuaries, their own vocabularies, their own stationeries, their own…
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Keep being limitless!
I dreamed things would be different. Children would laugh and I would sit back and sigh. There is no place like home. Not in form, for some. So thank God for all the roosters, turkey, cows goats and monkeys we saw along the way. Also thank you to all the trees that swayed around, ushering…
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Keep breathing again!
The plans for this year was light. I planned to walk through flames, to risk the fires that burn, even in the cold, just so I get to the forest of light within. That was the new year plan. In one week, I have been informed by the year that this one will be a…
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Keep blessings!
I saw a soft radiant sunset last evening. We were driving through an estate whose name when translated from Igbo to English means ‘blessings are great.’ Everything about out evening, from the setting sun, to our time at the estate, was full of grace, full of blessings. No wonder an Igbo man retires home the…
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Keep what God brings!
I knew there would be stares. I expected it. I knew many would never get his ways or ask questions about his tears. I didn’t realize they would stare, or laugh or drive us away. I also didn’t realize we would be shunned or pitied too as if to live with him is a deadly…
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Keep the heart of the World Cup!
The heart of soccer never changes. There will always be winner and losers. Just as the sun rises and sets. Some will rise and shine. While others will fall deep into abyss of regret only time can heal. I watched todays World Cup finale with glee. For once, the heart seemed to change. No clear…
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Keep Dolphin Estates!
Palm trees line greyed walls. Some still baring their fronds. Some bare. There were gates with barbed wires. Black, grey and brown gates with a dash of green and white. Most of the walls too were grey. The skies too grey. It was as if walls and skies gathered together for a grey purpose. We…
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Keep the unknown!
I fell deep into the unknown this past week. Everything was out of place. Even my face broke out in ways unknown. It was as if life was full of chaos and change, all spiraling out of control. I tried to relax, take things in stride but a life relaxed seemed like a luxury my…
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Keep grace while in Lagos!
The idea of remaining in one piece, birthed this space where all my experiences, parenting, productivity, life continues to roam free. I cannot begin to count all the ways it has helped me heal from fires and storms. My heart knows too, all the ways rivers flow in peace, all because we lived, our way.…
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Keep the West African Council of Medical Research!
We never forget moments that are rare. Those that are dear. Those that remind us of how far we have come. Those that show grace still for the journey ahead. All of them collided today when we came across an original signature log from the West Africa Council of Medical Research. The year was 1962…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 