Tag: storytelling
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Keep knowing your scars!
And what will you do today. My soul wondered out loud ever since we signed up to speak. And how will you celebrate the connections? Art and headwraps, you, motherhood, health and life. This is trivial, simple, we are all these things, and the connections are simple. No doubt today is here. There will be…
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Keep knowing their defeat is eminent.
When your existence is an accomplished fact, and your way of seeing things is the norm, then even if terminated, you are powerful and should still go forth staking your rightful claim as leaders of tomorrow even if today seems bleak. No need being a shadow of who you are. No falling into their trap of…
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Keep faith!
If faith is a door, if it swings open, wide, or not, or just a little opening, then at least light will pass through. And where there is light, there is no darkness, not even a speck. So even in these times, may your faith still be like a door. I spent the weekend surrounded…
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Keep standing with science!
Eliminating health-related grants like, some in the middle of clinical trials like the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network is not only unethical, but one of the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. A nation, free, confident and proud in all of stands for, doesn’t reject science on the basis of ideology, doesn’t eject…
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Keep writing!
Some days will keep you numb, break your heart, make you to wish this trauma would end, all while still hoping for the best. The last two days, I have felt like a ship drowning. The water is rising and rising and we see it and see ourselves drowning. Trying to be hopeful is hard.…
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Keep home!
When you get home, stop and stare, at nothing, at everything, men crouched working, lorries full driving, birds, four being painted in green and gold, then endless arrays of cars and buses and motorcycles bustling back and forth somewhere, anywhere, like rain failing on your head. When you get home, stop and stare, then begin…
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Keep Onyelo!
I tell a story of a name, Onyelo always for four reasons. First the meaning. Second, the memory, third, the meditation, fourth to be naked. When I’m done, I remember why stories matter. Ben Okri would say for several reasons including this two things: Good stories raise consciousness, lifts hearts. They also point a way,…
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Keep serving!
The power hidden in serving, how it may make you look small, like a speck, as if feeble, like a candle, all of this, plus, limited time, like a river flowing away, are the reasons to serve. Plus even if you don’t see the river, even if it’s directions, whether up or down, left or…
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Keep this lifetime!
If in this lifetime, you have a certain mind, heart, soul, dreams, regrets, visions, I pray you love all of it, all of you, this lifetime. Then if there are endless roses or thorns along the way, keep walking, as a journey of a lifetime, will be full of thorns, full of endless roses. My aunty…
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Keep all that remains!
We are thinking about resilience, thinking about what remains and what ends, thinking too about who stands and who gets to thrive, not just trees or flowers or the things we plant with our bare hands, but us, our children, our most vital source of all the ways we bloom, long after we are gone.…
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Keep the depths of pine trees!
On any given day, a group of pine trees stand tall at the back of our home. They are slim and delicate, always evergreen with branches so soft to touch. Wild winds sway their branches often , wild air their needles and pinecones too. Still they stand, tall and strong, always delicate to touch. But…
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Keep living!
I saw an image of a woman dead and it spoke vividly to me to live. To see her dead and just her eyes to testify to her life is the mirror I needed to see and the reminder to live life for as long as life is worth living. Otherwise I too would be…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 