Tag: stories
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Keep love for Olisa’s birthday!
The chance to love you, to know you, to grow with you In our darkest hour Our brightest days Are the reason Why we open Like wings for you. We call you Olisa. The one we named after God. The one we used to ask for his guidance. We are afterall nothing without God. The…
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Keep living beyond yourself!
I finally shared the courage award to the one who gave birth to Angie the other day. At first I was apprehensive. What would she say? Would she even approve? It’s her daughter after all and what right do I have to tell her story my way. To my surprise she cried. She kept thanking…
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Keep the fullness of life.
Remind me of how we got here, how our dreams, became reality, how fullness of life, became our life, how still the dreams moving in us, then shifted, but remained in us, as we watch time go on, and your light still stayed on, this indestructible light you gift us, as days stream into years,…
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Keep being a dream.
I am forever inspired by Langston Hughes. His poem “Hold fast to dreams” is an affirmation of sorts for my life’s work. The idea too of bringing all your dreams, another poem, inspires me. I am moved by the idea where we could do the following from another poem: “I dream a world, where all…
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Keep knowing that you are stronger than you seem!
Things will fall into their place. One by one. We pull and uproot. Seed and plant. Then reassemble as we root out things out of place. So let it burrow deep. Let it remind you still. Of all the ways you are stronger than you seem. For you are stronger than you seem. No one…
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Keep what matters!
These days I am learning much from how children work together. My kids are finally in the chore phase of our lives where everyone has something to do each day. Today’s dishes belonged to my son and he would rather we go downstairs to watch movies. The other kids just picked up and began their…
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Keep these thoughts
Some people fear life. Others face it in a haste. Some struggle through all its phases. Others choose to fall like leaves. I don’t know how to forget. Not when my peace is involved. Forgive I can try. But to forget, no. I know that this phase will bring struggles. It’s a revolution after all.…
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Keep all your tears, those full of wonder, as you reflect on your dreams!
Today, I get to reflect a bit about my journey to light. I get to sit first with myself and ask my dear self, why did we create all this? Tears are flowing. Who even asked us to be the light, to spread it and love it as if it was air. I am trying…
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Keep sleeping well Papa!
I am mesmerized by the impact of death. How it’s sting lingers even as years go by? Nearly 15 years ago today, my dearest Papa became my ancestor. Whenever this day appears yearly, we are transported to that very moment when death became our friend. I call it a friend because when you have lost…
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Keep writing beyond yourself!
“You have an interesting take on things. You ought to write a book.” These words were once spoke to the late great Toni Cade Bambara, author of one of my favorite books including the one simply entitled “Black Woman.” She once shared how she had been writing stories long before she could spell. She never…
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Keep words sweet as honey!
May your knowledge be like the Nile, your words blaze like a torch. May they build and plant. And like honey, remain sweet. May your words be like the morning star. Shining through the world like a full moon. May they be like roses in springtime. Lillies besides a stream. May they be like olives,…
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Keep being like ether with the stories you write!
Some omens are loud. So bear with me in these hours of silence. They have hidden notes wrapped up in hidden stories that turn hearts to stone. Our hearts are full of stone. They look too like dancers dis-inherited in the middle of a dance, hanging with their lame foot in the air, like a…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 