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Keep grace!
I begged my bones to be kind to me. They remembered yesterday and praised tomorrow. How will we stay the same they said. Now that we know the meaning of grace. So we let them drown as if in a pool of never ending water, as if in a sea of roaring waves, knowing they…
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Keep a plan!
Imagine if you sat in a room full of young people, what would you say, how would you begin. I sat in a room full of young people yesterday and saw myself in their eyes. Their minds were open and ready to learn. I began with these words from my mother “Enter to learn, depart…
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Keep knowing you are enough!
if near angry oceans, roaring waterfalls, vicious waves or crying rivers, like a deer, thirsty, stand and drink in praise. what eyes see, lips taste are enough!
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Keep remembering how the journey began!
Say we met, on a Friday evening over drinks and pomegranates. Say we talked, for an hour or two, then walked around looking for food. Say we watched the evening sunset, the night creatures rise, as two hearts open to the possibilities of life with no regrets. See the first day I met you, our…
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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 these thoughts on writing.
Underneath skin, we pull each other in, and reveal things within. We explore edges, those without limits, those that discern boundaries within. Yet the boundaries, and the limits, the edges underneath skin, unfold moments where words are like the layers of cells beneath. The word was writing. The goal was to write about how I…
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Keep the joy of eating jollof rice together!
My jollof rice is joyful, so it’s heavenly taste with my people. Every Sunday afternoon is joyful. So the smiles of my people. Joyful also are our gathering. Joyful also are these memories with my people. I have been reading Braiding Sweetgrass and the idea of the holder and the braider reminded me of what…
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Keep the memories of LIGHT Year 3 and Rest in Peace, Dr. Ivis M. Richardson!
Our LIGHT festival just ended. I was supposed to close and inform people about the plans for next year. I didn’t. I couldn’t. Our last speaker, Christell Roach lost her grandmother, Dr Ivis M. Richardson yesterday. She could have cancelled, she could have called and told us about her death. We would have understood. My…
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Keep the 3rd annual LIGHT festival for the public by the public with public health!
When we started this three years ago, we imagined we would do as Audre Lorde’s once noted and bring a burst of light to public health. The world was in a pandemic, health was in a disarray, everything with the public was complex and messy and at that moment we knew that light was needed.…
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Keep things delicate!
The word was delicate. In a class assignment tonight (yes I am taking classes hence my absence here), I joined late but just in time to begin writing the first thoughts that came to mind with the word delicate. The assignment without using the word, tell a story, write a poem, do or say anything…
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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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Keep this self-portrait!
A dreamer, a believer, star gazer and breeder, and a lover of full moons. Steady like black ants, marching, unwavering, persistent. Chatty, tenacious, stubborn, bold, full of hope, for no certain outcome and for certain outcomes. Impediments and struggle, Together with legacy and tomorrow Are like the sun and it flowers, A duality that matter,…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 