Tag: stories
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Keep purple coneflowers!
I saw purple cone flowers on my morning run today. The past week has been a walk through hell. Seeing purple cone flowers were the sight I needed to wrap up a terrible week. I took a picture of the flower. I read what they stood for. Flowers like this thrive in open wooded areas.…
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Keep writing!
They say it heals and persevere. Writing. They say to use it to keep what matters. Anything from golden brown meat pies to the perfect strawberry smoothies. They say to use it to amplify and acknowledge, express and experience, cope and chronicle, reflect and resist, solve and save, pray and persist. For we are empowered…
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Keep being still!
Birds talk Grass sing I know what they say. Skies weep Clouds see I know what the feel. Through the valley Through the deepest valley, I know how to be still. Leaves believe Trees perceive I stand still in awe
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Keep climbing mountains!
If you have ever been invisible, ever been accused, ever been dismissed, ever been muted, even when not in a room, consider yourself lucky to have come this far. Then keep climbing your mountain. For few will see the moon glow as it does for those ignored. Few will understand that they choose their words…
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Keep freedom!
F is for freedom, for all the ways minds focused on it are truly free. I finished my Dream course today. It taught me my purpose, gave me my joy, helped to craft the story my life, one that I hope to tell soon. I see the vision clearly now. This change with the season…
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Keep your people close ooh and whatever is for you!
On the path to change, I finally woke up. I have been blind for awhile but now I see. Now that I have arrived at a place called joy, a space I claim for me. So I stayed there for a moment. I basked in the memories, those that carried me along, those that served…
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Keep the roots of your approach!
Roots understand everything. Out of sight, Yet they see it all and never judge A beauty, An importance, None goes unnoticed. For roots hidden underground, Just drinking water When they can Coordinating behavior As they can If you could know all the ways they connect, If you could learn, the commitments they know, The cooperation…
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Keep being a child of dreams
You are draped in all colors of the sun. All the shades of blue skies. All the greens of leafy trees. You who loves a life that cannot be denied. We named you after God so you never forget your name, never forget that you can own beautiful heavens, powerful earth and brilliant stars. You…
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Keep your stories!
A womb tells the beginning of your story. Life forgets it’s continuity. Yet, if your stories, instead of theirs, your life, instead of their own. All your gains, instead of defeat. Your pain too, instead of deceit. If your lillies bloomed in any way. Your roses only registered thorns. Your days are as days. Your…
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Keep breathing again!
The plans for this year was light. I planned to walk through flames, to risk the fires that burn, even in the cold, just so I get to the forest of light within. That was the new year plan. In one week, I have been informed by the year that this one will be a…
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Keep grace upon grace in 2023!
Happy New Year. Something about this moment, This New Year again, Feels like a renewal A rebirth A time for reimagination Restoration Release Rest Remeberance Revival Resolve Revelations And Revaluations. Only, this time, I’m in a village, And the pleasing sounds of rare birds and cocks crowing, goats bleating alongside more bird sounds chorusing through…
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Keep blessings!
I saw a soft radiant sunset last evening. We were driving through an estate whose name when translated from Igbo to English means ‘blessings are great.’ Everything about out evening, from the setting sun, to our time at the estate, was full of grace, full of blessings. No wonder an Igbo man retires home the…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 