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Keep knowing what you will keep and happy birthday Audre Lorde!
I remember reading these lines from Audre Lorde years ago, in a letter she once wrote to a friend, that it is ‘out of chaos that new worlds are born.’ For the past two years, I have been moving past so many boundaries I once set for myself through words. Of course the pandemic was…
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Keep moments with God, part 2!
You came in the afternoon. Around four, forty-five. On two, seventeen, seventeen. Daddy was there the entire time. Just him, you and Gillian, our nurse practitioner with a smile that never fades. Only three of us. She looked at Dad and asked if he was ready. He smiled. She knew he was. He wore the…
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Keep praising children who know love!
We remind ourselves, each day, all children are precious. Black, Brown, White, no matter the color, or creed, all children, whether strange or foreign, are precious. Recently, I have been struggling with the reality that some children have nothing precious or valuable within them. I often wonder too what happened to them that at their…
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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 moments with God!
Some moments linger on, like a song, playing on. Like the moment he arrived. We call him Olisa, but truly he is our beloved. Our guide through life. Remember, the $10k lottery, from over 1100 entries. Olisa won that last year at his school. His ways are not ours. The words out of his mouth…
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Keep knowing that anger does not reach my soul!
They call us Iwelunmor. The ones for whom anger does not reach our soul. Even if they stir up trouble. The ones for whom anger does not invade our being. Even if they hinder our dreaming. The ones for whom anger does not dwell in our mind. Even if it lasts for a moment. So…
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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 knowing your soul!
I am undoing all that keeps my soul from prospering. All that keeps me buried. I am looking at the mirror to. I know my soul. I am like stars against the sky. Like galaxies bouncing through space. Becoming green as I pass through storms. I know what stirs me. I bow my heads in…
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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 charting a burst of light with science/public health writing.
How might we make scientific writing inclusive? How might it move beyond its style and form, beyond its static blueprint to adapt to lives that are constantly changing? How can we speak of advancing racial and ethnic equity in science, health or medicine, if we continue to court tools and language that remain colonized? How…
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Keep knowing I’m not done yet!
As rough as the grains of garri. As smooth as the mold of eba. This collection of lists to keep. A collection of cares so deep. Unclear what I’m doing. But doing so with clarity. Honest, honesty. Of life as a mother. Life as a health researcher too. All in a time of a pandemic.…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 