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Keep thanks and grace for frontline workers!
I love thank you cards. I love to read them. Love to see them. Love the humanity inherent in them. I especially love when they come from strangers. My husband gets them all the time. He knows how much I love to see them too. This time, the stranger was more than gracious, so much…
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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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Keep breathing!
The plans for this year was light. I planned to walk through flames, to risk the fires that burn, even in the cold, just so I get to the forest of light within. That was the new year plan. In one week, I have been informed by the year that this one will be a…
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Keep a gathering of ambitious mothers!
We are back in full work mode. I am tired already. I long for rest. Doing nothing for a while is truly healing for the soul. Something I never knew I needed until I was forced to not work. But since I returned this week, just seeing my inbox has been overwhelming. I decided to…
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Keep knowing you are your best thing!
“You are your best thing.” This line Toni Morrison used in her book Beloved is a gentle reminder to you, to me. I am my best thing. I am. That’s all.
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Keep escaping with words!
I want to be that no ordinary kind of woman that meets herself every time through words. To remind her, that because of words, we can survive, live, love, pray, as we escape the unthinkable. These are cold days, but words can lead out to our breakout as we learn what life is. So if…
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Keep an ambitious year!
How do we approach the complexities of ourselves fearlessly? How do we do it whether as a mother, a writer, a wife, a sister or a friend, fearlessly? How do we uncover our untapped power fearlessly? How do we accept all our tensions or even our chaos fearlessly? Yet still somehow, unleash our ambitions fearlessly?…
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Keep the blessings of a new year!
Dear New Year, What to make of thee, from all who seek your new? This time, our hunger grows day by day. For paths our feet are prepared to walk through. This rich promise for new the morning sun will not betray. To begin again with repeating this cycle with you. To bask in your…
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Keep the beauty of chaos!
I am gliding into 2022 with an undying commitment to simplicity. Like bundles of sticks, I intend to find strength with those that choose to stand together with me. It’s a commitment after all and you are either in or out as I follow my star. I am also prepared to endure all that life…
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Keep 8 days of Christmas fun!
Yesterday we began an adventure into 8 days of Christmas fun. In fact, we are living our lives through a book written and illustrated by my daughter. All I can say is that because of her, my world is Belle. Like Lotanna Belle, there are no limits. She is one who opens our hearts to…
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Keep voicing unpleasant truths about the pandemic!
Let no one silence or suppress your truth. Whether unpleasant or uncomfortable. May no one stifle or suffocate your significance or shared responsibilities. Scam or strangle your sensibilities or collective senses with lies. As you strive for uncomfortable representations beyond unpleasant shadows. Rather may you continue to connect and commune. Reveal and reveal. Every unpleasant…
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Keep writing!
Like many, I have been reading and rereading all the bell hooks books I have in my possession. I have been struck with how urgent her work is for those desperate for word work that awakens us all to our possibilities. bell hooks was a prolific writer. As I looked through her writings, I gathered…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 