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Keep perspective!
We watched AFCON match today and saw our beloved country loose a game. Then we literally clutched our pearls with the SuperBowl until Kansas Chiefs won. All of this had me thinking about perspective. Failure is always inevitable with anything. So too is success and the hurdles along the way. But perspective is like a…
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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 illuminating your presence!
You do not have to listen. You do not have to wait to hear me speak. You only have to open your eyes and let your eyes see what it sees. Tell me about hurdles, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile, the world will go on, days will go on and everyone will…
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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 the lessons of dogs!
When dogs meet other for the first time, they stop, sniff, and acknowledge each other, in love, or in hate. When people see each other other, whether for the first or only time, they move pass each other, some in silence, some full of depths unknown, that make you wonder about the lessons of dog.
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Keep Black History!
Some words are unforgettable. Like black, history. These words will make you regret the day you lacked clarity for words clear and deep. Those different and free. The purpose of words, like a mountain, are to help you rise, struggle but rise, still pushing against air till you bleed their essence.
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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 being like a broom!
They say a broom has no value, yet everyday, people look around their house for a broom or something close to it to sweep their homes. The depths of a broom are so deep, that when you done using it, it goes back to being itself, a broom in silence and peaceful simplicity. Imagine being…
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Keep this light
You will turn into something inexplicable, like the sun and its flowers, the moon and its showers, when you make yourself, light.
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Keep being seen with your stories!
I have been thinking lately about seeing and being seen. Photos for example, are moments in time that enable us to see, the subject, their stance, their worldview, whether good or bad. All of it are captured in an image that enables the eyes to see. It’s an art form too that illustrates a certain…
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Keep being present!
There is this believe that all stories are true. Some have magic to their name and can do wonders to transport you from this realm to another. There are some stories portrayed as the best. We are assured in the praise songs that they are indeed the best. They can open up worlds from which…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 