Tag: Parenting
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Keep the happiness under your nose!
Our flights got cancelled last week. In a land were cacti dwell. We could either complain or chose peace even in such chaotic moments. For happiness is still right under our nose. Then we were told of a place where tulips dwell. We were told we could spend hours there. We could go from cacti…
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Keep hope and a dog named Simba!
Igbo people say that Nchekume ka o-li-li or in other words, that which you hope for is more important than eating anything. So long as you keep hope alive, eventually that thing you wish for, will come to pass. At the beginning for summer, I took my kids to a dog park. We walked for…
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Keep a focus!
We have been smiling these days as we stir, stretch and focus. New beginnings are around the corner. This time, our way…Happy New Month…
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Keep Belle’s depths with ease!
Only our memories will linger on, against the cobbled streets in the city of lights. And who can choose between there and here, between the depths of the past and the ease of now. Darkness every time will lose and who can choose between the joys of a future where Nkiruka or the hurdles of…
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Keep young people close!
A little over four years ago, a developer, my team and I were working with disappeared. We searched everywhere for him and couldn’t find me. He was young and many people told us to move on, that young people are never reliable. We knew it was unlike him but his disappearance shattered us too. We…
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Keep being visible.
My daughter cut her hair off today. It was by accident and she has been crying ever since. At first I was angry. I told her to go to her grandma to remove her braids. Grandma has always done so before. She felt she could do it on her own and didn’t need any help.…
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Keep flying beyond the skies!
Blue, skies are blue. Smile, big smiles are big. Love from you is love. Grace will do, will do. Otito Chukwu. We celebrated our Tochi with grace and gratitude today. The skies were the perfect blue. Family flew from afar and full of love. We smiled, we toasted, we celebrated. If you knew how this…
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Keep frying yams!
She fried yams this morning. Thick golden, brown yams. Cooking teaches love, a kind of power, full for those who know themselves, those who lead. This morning we saw a tree bend all the way down to its purpose. Our daughter is becoming a tree full of purpose, full of power. She fried yams this…
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Keep a taste of humanity!
My baby boy hugged strangers today. I tried to stop him, but he hugged their back a little tighter. I proceeded to apologize for his touchy feely ways but the strangers, two African women turned around and hugged him back. I smiled. Then he he told them his name. Shared the name of his brother,…
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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 Iwelunmor!
Become known for profound illumination, plain speaking, spare elegance, deep thoughts, practical wisdom, a poetic voice. Then dwell on 91. Thousands will fall around. Tens of thousands. But you will not be harmed. Angels are in charge. They protect even your feet from stones. The same feet that trampled down lions and fierce snakes. So…
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