Tag: Parenting
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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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Keep home!
when I feel lost, i like to go home, to where the skies are grey, warm and smile. i’ll stand in the room where mama died, pray too where Papa slept. she sang of ways to surrender all. he did as well. i mentioned earlier that i feel lost at times. yet whenever i’m unsure…
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Keep remembering Papa!
I remember these days, like a woman in labor, pain at the thought of pushing, but grace at the sound of new beginnings. Death has a way of reminding you to begin. New chapters, new stories, new life without those who once gave life. If this is a reminder, then Papa thank you for piercing…
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Keep ordinary moments
Despite the skies being grey, we drive up the street to the place where it all began. Seven of us in a white bus, driving every morning to the place where anyone can lead change. There is an ostrich dressed to blend with grass. A giant head smiling as we drive pass every day. Meat…
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Keep celebrating the one known as Onyelo!
Love is as love does and when love begins with Nnem you will give life love. The light of love is in the one everyone calls Nnem. Onyelo. The impossible being whose being is as secure as the clouds in the sky. Her love is always there, always loving, always letting the love within us…
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Keep simple things.
It was simple to begin, simple to set a date, make a plan, let each other lead, keep things simple. The new year was beginning, all things in the beginning seem simple. Set a date, make a plan, listen, learn, see as they lead. What is not simple: four diseases in one, four conditions in…
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Keep this gift we gift back to God always!
Some describe you as skin, a luminous embrace. Some describe you as water, with your enduring grace. Some describe you as earth, seeing how you are endlessly unfazed, but I call you our soul, our son, with an unblinking gaze. Happy Birthday, our gift we gift back to God always. Your name is all you…
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Keep the grace of scarves!
There is a picture of my grandmother that I return to often. It’s a black and white picture with a white scarf resting half way through her head. The colors of the scarves are locked in time for me, except that they seem white next to a head full of black hair. I return often…
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Keep all that makes you create!
I have been in class the past 4 weeks. It ended today hence my absence here. Ben Okri once shared that the most authentic thing about being human, is our ability to create. We can create, overcome what we create, endure as we create, transform what we create, love all we create, and still be…
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Keep Dr. H. Phillip Venable Memorial Park!
In a town called Creve Coeur lies a park that should have housed a home, that should have been full of black people jocking and jiving, singing or playing trumpets on Sunday afternoons long after a sermon at church. Dr. H. Phillip Venable, would have been sitting outside of his front porch, catching the breeze,…
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Keep the knowledge and birthday of our Belle.
I would liken her to a star. Not those up in the skies, but the stars within. I would liken her to the moon. Not the kind that appears in the sky at night. But the moon within. I would liken her to the sun. Not the one that shines so brightly on a clear…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 