Tag: motherhood
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Keep this life!
Words are the threads that bind our lives, whether as mothers, professors, or dreamers. I share reflections on style, research, and life’s rhythms, hoping to inspire and connect. Discover more about my evolving narrative.
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Keep knowing there is no failure in us!
I am learning that there is no failure in us, even if we are hurt, even if we are torn, there is no failure in us, death itself is a small stone, from the mountain we were born too, so no failure in us, not when we can put it in a pocket and carry…
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Keep your dreams!
We build with what we have, with stone, some sand, a little bit of cloud and a lot full of dreams all pieced together. Super proud of her!
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Keep your game, your system!
I am learning that there are games we can’t play. Some stacked against us so that the only option left is to simply not play. You can choose to play a different game. One where you simply observe how the games are being played and maybe hope that one day, soon enough, you will be…
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Keep all you see!
As if looks were everything, she walked in sure that what eyes see where enough. Only they weren’t and everything depends on where you look in places where air seems hopeless. So she looked for spaces full of possibilities, she looked for where music flowed like branches in the wind. She looked for invisible places where…
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Keep your parenting!
The real work of motherhood begins when the day you never dreamed off arrives. For me, it was this week. I have been holding on to my daughter being my first baby for so long that I secretly refused to see her as the teenager she was becoming. I have been in denial since I…
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Keep walking still!
Some paths will grow damp and uncomfortable and you will have no choice but to walk through. And when your feet get heavy, find something soft and solemn but walk.
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Keep telling your story!
When stories go a distance, they become crooked. So too the story for today. It began as any other, with plans beyond time. Then life intervened and the journey turned into another moment in need for deeper reflection. We are all stories, carrying kernels of truth, mixed with untruth, all shaped as we journey along…
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Keep being a child of blessings!
A child becoming better than you is a blessing. Today, I learnt about the blessings I bring. Keep this. Edo language.
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Keep Nnem love!
Some people love me. Not in moderation. But the kind of love that will lift you up in the air if necessary. Some people love me. Not in pieces, but love that keeps you full and whole. Some people love me. The kind of love that requires you let it be known if only to…
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Keep these delights of life!
I’m learning to delight in things that dazzle like light, to bask in the pleasure and knowledge of everything that glimmers after rain, to dwell in moments that kindle, so I kindle too with every moment of life even if for a little while. These words were flowing while nursing a 4 year whose delight…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 