Tag: motherhood
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Keep choosing time alone!
This story about a girl who lived alone inspires me. She smiled often alone too. In a world where leaves fall on their own. This girl alone, too deep in their thoughts alone, forgot the serenity of feasts. Those full of grace. In a land where many choose paths, that destroy or unknowingly build, she…
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Keep unlearning learning!
The idea of unlearning intrigues me. Theories, methods, whose words, my words, how to unlearn learning agitates me. There are those who choose to remain as is. Choose their own perspectives or those of others as is. Yet, they forget, other perspectives exist. Those rarely discussed, rarely seen, rarely even known, exists. Yet there is…
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Keep motherhood!
Motherhood is not only a noun, but a sound, a state of being, history, culture, memories, mine, theirs, evenings with a sigh, mornings with a smile, all of me, some of them. Something full of complexity, enormity, anything that personifies thing. It’s that thing that is terrible, yet we do in stride, with strength to…
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Keep love!
The sight of love, from eyes that never lie, restored a balance time almost tried to hide. Watching their eyes widen, holding ourselves tightly, is the reason why living is a fire. There was happiness all around, for love they know and a new love trapped in a new house they own. The one with…
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Keep all your tears!
I have this memory, etched forever in my minds extremity, of tears, of chaos, and vows that I made, as winds rustled by, that you my son, the one God gave to us, the one that taught life’s extremities, those that flair up on their own, those that rhyme on their own, those that bang,…
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Keep dreams of lasting this Spring!
The idea of lasting is like electricity. The switch turns on, and I am fully charged. My mind becomes a tunnel threatening to force me to burrow deeply. Eyes are bright, like the sharpest blue of spring sun. Head focused as if on a edge of a cliff. As if waiting to meet another head…
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Keep your books!
I like to find treasures in books. Some old, some new. Some full of prose, some simply poetry. If beauty was measured by the books you read, I’ll be the most beautiful reader you’ll ever meet. Keep all the books you read. My last son is in his ABC recital phase and one book I…
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Keep what you got!
I spent the day at the ER with my 5 year old son today. I got a call around 10am to come get him from school because he fell and may need stitches. On getting to his school, the gash was deep and well off to the ER we went. I was actually fascinated by…
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Keep this knowing so deep, black mothers!
I have spent the past 2 days sinking into Toni Morrison’s knowing so deep essay. It’s my go to essay when I try to understand my place in this world. The wisdom, accuracy, relevance of her words are worthy of being kept every single day. If black women are to survive, if we are to…
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Keep black mothers, keep black sons! For Tyre!
I think about us today. Black mothers wherever you are. I think about the thoughts we have for our children. The fear we have too. I think about what tomorrow may bring. What today brings. I want to say it will be better. It may not be. I want to tell you to dry your…
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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 knowing your soul!
I like this idea that glory will be revealed one day. Many may see or not see it too. But it’s been promised so all you can do is wait. 2022 was the year I reached my limit. It was also the year I knew my soul in the words of Claude McKay. The urge,…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 