Tag: Parenting
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Keep the sounds of love for 2024!
This evening as we gathered together, I listened to sounds of those that hold us close. One was crying, my first son. He had just used his dad’s clippers to scrap hair off his head. His little brothers and older sister talked about getting him a toupe to cover his head as his dad tried…
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Keep striving for the stars!
If you ever find yourself in a place where everyone strives for the stars, I hope you do the same.
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Keep the bright sides of 2024!
My son on the spectrum was kicked out of school when he was two. And so began a journey into an existence I never knew existed. He is 10 years old now and yesterday he was one of the three wise men in his school’s Christmas play. Shortly after he was kicked out of school,…
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Keep being a revolution or doing what Nikki Giovanni says!
Her words were power. I lived by them. The idea for example of living militant dreams of showing folks how things should be done is at the heart of why I write here every day. Part distraction, part invitation, all a reflection that my story will always be mine, always unfold in ways that are…
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Keep moments where you begin again!
Yesterday I returned home after being away for a week. The past one month, I have been on a rollercoaster ride of my own doing, that slowly came to a halt yesterday in the middle of the Atlantic, somewhere on the journey from Amsterdam to Detroit. I took the time to reflect on what can…
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Keep captivating days
I am captivated by things simple like rainy days, moments gentle like kiss on your check from your child, memories eternal, like the rise after a rise, and days of delight, like pint of ice-cream with those you adore. If this 27th day, of the ninth month, of the year 2024 would be art, I…
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Keep love
I am remembering love, the sweet taste of pomegranate, love, a blue line on a red sky, love, children bright like stars, love, peace that surpasses all understanding… love, a poem without words, this love, love, love…
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Keep hope!
We hope to rise with feet eager and life hopeful, to stand upon a hill and smile at a soul so full. If this is the brink of another day, may all we sow, all we gather, all we grew and all we planted, with our bare hands, help us to fix our eyes on…
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Keep these moments!
I write these days to celebrate life, to listen as water falls, to remember the power of hurdles, to love every struggle we meet. My middle son had a melt-down today. We rarely have them but when it happens, it is as fierce as it is hopeful and a reminder that every single moment of…
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Keep this 4th anniversary, the one full of grace!
One of my favorite prayers begins with the word, “Hail Mary, full of grace.” If you know the next lines, for me, you would know that the lord has truly been with me. For who can go through fire, go through trials and somehow, get to the other side, oblivious to the fact that just…
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Keep always the start of a new school year!
Even the morning breeze sigh at the start of a new school year. And what will this year bring, we all wonder to ourselves. Will it bring joy, will it bring growth, will it bring anything trivial like the ease of morning breeze or anything sweet like a joyful squeeze from hands tiny and full…
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Keep writing!
They say it heals. Writing. They say to use it to remember. Anything from the golden horns of cows to golden brown of meat pies, even the color of strawberry smoothies whether pink or red. What you write, will be read. So write to amaze, write to amplify, write to even acknowledge moments where your…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 