Tag: storytelling
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Keep being little pots!
Igbo people have a saying, that when a little pot is underrated, it boils over and extinguishes the fire. Not too long ago, I watched as people looked down on me and my mentor. Granted we are different. You can never tell what we are capable of. And proverbs are the palm oil within which…
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Keep the music of storms!
Some storms bring music so proud they whistle across the skies, blending with nature as if the rhythms and all the chords left behind where echos of a life so powerless that all a soul could do is rest. I have been through such a storm. Been through the loud drums that left even the…
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Keep this peace!
Belle, just look at us and know the full extent of your peace. Between me and life, there is quite a lot of things to do. An extra trip or so to a place where cacti dwell. A day’s trip around a city that never sleeps. Where one is at peace is very important. Especially…
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Keep a full soul!
Yesterday, my day was flooded with a sweetness I never knew I deserved. To read the prayers, hear the songs, feel sweet murmurs of love, made life feel enough. The day was just right considering it also began a journey I promised I would give to those I truly love. Dreams for tomorrow sang with…
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Keep memories!
What I am remembering doubles everyday. What I am seeing, people, places. I can see us crossing streets, paved and grey. Seeing buses orange and black. Walking steps and streets long forgotten, has us wondering, what happened here. What, what, what.
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Keep the wonders of life!
They say life will be good. There is wonder here. So live it gently with fire and hope. Live it with music so sweet, your hips laugh. We did today, with the one named Belle. We sat in place full of songs. Like oceans. There is wonder here. We saw the skies, though grey, were…
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Keep choosing time alone!
This story about a girl who lived alone inspires me. She smiled often alone too. In a world where leaves fall on their own. This girl alone, too deep in their thoughts alone, forgot the serenity of feasts. Those full of grace. In a land where many choose paths, that destroy or unknowingly build, she…
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Keep speaking!
There are those who speak with a voice full of ease. But I speak of persistence to those I love. So they readily meet life, choose love, just as they see it.
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Keep unlearning learning!
The idea of unlearning intrigues me. Theories, methods, whose words, my words, how to unlearn learning agitates me. There are those who choose to remain as is. Choose their own perspectives or those of others as is. Yet, they forget, other perspectives exist. Those rarely discussed, rarely seen, rarely even known, exists. Yet there is…
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Keep Light Festival 2
We spoke to our inner selves today. In the middle of a festival for the public’s health by the public. There were stories of bravery, stories of change, stories of ovaries, stories of light. I left the day full. I imagine there will be moments like this in public health, moments where the source of…
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Keep being stars!
Tell them we stood like stars and dazzled and dazzled like stars within. But we never forget, and we keep the memories of a time something tried to dim our light. Yet still like stars, we dazzled. Right at the beginning of setting up one of my most significant research programs, an individual I entrusted…
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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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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 