Tag: notes
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Keep these wishes!
In the book of wishes, Eve Merriam, wished that we would learn to love darkness as well as light. She wished we would also remember that trees need roots below to grow up to the sky. So too this thing called dreams. I am learning these days to bask in moments dark as well as…
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Keep love!
Love doesn’t need translation. Not when it translates itself. Picture this, a little boy, almost 5 years old, in a grey shirt and blue pants, with arms outstretched as if reaching to the moon and stars above, and the words love you to the moon and back, written next to the moon and stars, and…
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Keep the lessons of trees!
The briefest of rain will remind of how red maple trees are trees and content, always, for not a single red maple tree you see, speaks a word of complaint, neither do they have questions nor answers to give, yet they live as though they have been told to live, with their red leaves bursting…
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Keep these thoughts
We know that anger helps, hunger for solutions too. We know that despair stiffens and joy seems for red birds far from the skies. We know these times are full of fear, these days are truly hard to bear, and even if they rule with no care, at least our hands are bare.
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Keep this metaphor!
I was asked to describe myself yesterday, I said I am storyteller. Everything I do begins from a place of stories. I am in the process of beginning, becoming too, and stories, like metaphors are leading. Then I proceeded to break and empty myself, my dreams to strangers I was meeting for the first time.…
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Keep all things you love
I write this. Not for you who fight to write your own words…but you who neither fear nor fight. I write this reminding you always to choose you. The world seems vast. It can also be remote and unfamiliar. But love for yourself will win and win.
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 