Tag: learning
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Keep Osodieme or a word now gone due to cervical cancer!
Her story, like many, are untold. Her pain, unknown. Her cervix, unforgettable. But her death, free. Think of the depths she took. Think of the blood she hid. Think of the control she fought. Then think of the words unspoken. Lusting for life, she only spoke to friends. Insisting her cervix was a private affair.…
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Keep the cross.
Something about today, Good Friday, keeps me grateful. To see him on the cross. To see hands outstretched. Head bent to the side. To see thorns like a crown pierced to his head. To see the nails, hands and feet nailed to the cross. To see the blood, the body, all the pain I know…
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Keep nothing for youth without youth!
I have taken plenty short trips in life. But few are as unforgettable as the past 4 days in Lagos. Imagine arriving to blue skies. No soon after we arrived, even after all the chaos we encountered at the airport, I arrived to skies perfect and blue. I entered Lagos too with clarity. Day after…
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Keep leading!
To lead, when one has never led, is courageous. Risky and daring, but with courage. To see it’s outcomes, it’s possibilities, so rich, is divine. To know that I lead this, keeps me on my knees. I am nothing but the grace of God and so full of thanks today for the risk, for daring…
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Keep dreams!
Dreams begin here. With people like you. Sitting and pondering. Drinking and eating. Laughing and living. Loving and living life, our way. A dream, to sit by the ocean and think for self. To live among others like you keeping things worth keeping. To simply live. All will do. For where dreams begins, life lives…
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Keep young people!
April 8th The scene was full of brilliance. Young people answering to their names. They see their light. They know their season too. This is it. See them rise, past all expected. Entering their destiny without error. Standing in rooms they own. Full of grace for all they know. Blooming on their own, like a…
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Keep Lagos!
Lagos. May your roads never be bad. That’s what they say when you arrive. I say may your days never be bad. May they never. It’s been 2 years and this never gets old. Lagos girl, born and raised. Feels good to be home.
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Keep stillness
We are off. Wheels are off. Things feel light. Maybe it’s the air. The feel of lightness in the air. Either way we are off. I beg the air to be still. It keeps speaking of peace. I know. But still be still.
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Keep remembering Toni Cade Bambara.
I came across a remembrance of the phenomenal Toni Cade Bambara written by the unconquerable bell hooks. There was so much to unpack that I felt the need to rephrase all that stood out for me to keep. Few have ever written as brilliant as Toni Bambara. Even Toni Morrison once described her as brilliant.…
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Keep knowing that the source of health is never outside!
I am re-reading Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salteaters, and I am struck by this line in the book ‘the source of health is never outside.’ The book itself is always worth a read but the idea of all you need for health nestled within you has always made me feel whole. Two days ago, my…
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Keep knowing that we are all storytellers!
I see things differently with each passing day. I know things differently too. Where one thing stands, another thing will stand right beside it. That was Achebe’s thing. I get that. Also that the storyteller is the eagle’s feather. It’s all he spoke about. I am also seeing that our focus on certain things like…
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Keep knowing you can do anything!
I know that girl. I see the light in her eyes every time she remembers she can do anything. She may not know how to be brave in the moment. May not know what to say or how to fight back in the moment. But when she remembers her mother’s voice, she knows she can…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 