Tag: writers
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Keep great women!
Like a vineyard that produces much fruit. Or like an olive branch that produce many olives. Like a bird escapes from a trap. Or like arrows in the hand of a warrior. Like a mountain which sits unmoved forever. Or like mighty streams in dry desert. So shall it be for a woman whose crown…
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Keep a community of women!
So this must be why they call it paradise, spirit and soul connecting, listening, being together, under blue skies and palm trees, purple cactus and lemon trees, eating herb roasted whole chicken, fennel crusted sea bass, with baby kale risotto, while drinking blood orange lemon punch, and the sun set is as dazzling as can…
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Keep life notes!
I am not quick to describe for myself whether life is this or that. There are so many different ways to live life. Many different ways to make it your own out of something much deeper than anything that you can describe. Sometimes you will fail. Sometimes you will succeed. But life keeps going, almost…
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Keep the blessings of Lucille Clifton!
When my children say your name, Lucille Clifton, I smile. How to carry water comes to mind. How to sail through this to that too. I often wonder how you lived. Lived even beyond your own understanding. A good woman, an ordinary woman, a woman whose voice is light too. I’ll never forget your Black…
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Keep keeping this list of things to keep!
So this is what it means, to be a woman full of lists, of things to keep, in a time of a pandemic, every single thought, sound and insane. Mother to a girl named Belle and boys who never met the one for whom anger never met his soul. Daughter to the one for whom…
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Keep the lessons of the snow!
Perhaps the lessons from falling snow, is that every fall brings disruption. Every disruption brings change. Every change brings power. Every power brings insight. Every insight brings abundance. Every abundance brings grace. Every grace is sublime. I agree with the snow. What if anything can we learn from snow? The past 2 days my family…
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Keep undoing
I imagine undoing, ending, the woman killing memories of girlhood, in me, unafraid, believing, in nothing, just loosening, trouble, rustling pain, embracing, love, all buried within, like snow, falling rain, liberating my mind Loving this day, I begin, opening, to you, only you, see only you can begin this I imagine, undoing. The bits and…
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Keep knowing where you stand with public health!
At the end of his book Health and Culture beyond the Western Paradigm, my doctoral advisor ended with these words: ‘To engage in a healthy culture project is to question one’s location constantly, always remembering that wherever something stand, another thing will stand beside it.’ It’s from Chinua Achebe and to him, it meant that…
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Keep imaginations
I have been writing and thinking about why we write. This time, my daughter and my son are my muse. I listened intently as she told me during dinner about her desire to start her own company, one where she would simply write and illustrate all the books she wanted to write. Currently she is…
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Keep dwelling among fine people!
Today, I dwelled among some fine people. Poets, storytellers, researchers, humans committed to the light, the beauty of our humanity. And they all glistened, smiled as they glistened. Finer than silver moons. Oozing words, delicious words, as juicy as the sweetest berries. Of ways humanity will flourish because we loved us, loved our coming together…
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Keep dancing in the mind or writing for people!
Imagine taking seven days to frame the entire world. The kind of patience it would take to ensure that the stars and the moon are in the right place. All sorts of fishes or sea monsters swim the oceans. Mountains and hills are perfectly framed with volcanoes ready to erupt as they please. Having such…
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Keep coming!
Isioma, You come gliding through this Saint Louis blues, on a cold Sunday morning, frigid and clear. You come walking through icy paths patiently gliding through forests deep as your walk fearlessly to the unknown. You come tested by fire like gold and silver and all precious jewel formed by fire. You come leaning not…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 