Tag: family
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Lord, I give you all the days of the rest of my life.
For whatever reason, today I am thinking about getting old. What will my legacy be ? What stories will be told about me ? What stories will I tell ? Who will I tell them to? Who will be in my life ? How will my days be ? What will my last 20 years,…
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#8 Travel diary: Fascination around my hair
The stories of beauty, variations, pain, time, struggles, and adventures, traumas, angsts surrounding black hair have been around for ages. Now with technology and evolving standards of beauty, no one can possibly exhaust the complexity surrounding this topic. Many people have attempted to make easier the life of women and girls like of my skin…
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You have given everything
You have given everything of yourself and some.Yet I am so inadequate I could never pay back in equal measureBut I hope daily that my love and gratitude to you are felt, palpable, and visible. Love, your daughter.
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Take a pause
Life can move so fast; sometimes at my busiest, I don’t remember on Friday what happened on Monday. There have been too many microevents. It’s better to take a pause. Stop and look around before you miss life as it is unfolding. The world as it is today seems to have different settings in this…
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My little brother is my inspiration in this season….
…….and quite frankly, he is putting an indelible mark on me. This boy is 12. He has such a strong build for this age and thinks like he’s walked on this earth surface before. Some people get this while others don’t, as they voice observations that come off as completely indifferent to a child’s emotions.…
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Love and Nurture
It’s often said that one shouldn’t speak about children and raising them unless they have had children of their own to raise. And yes, I absolutely believe that. I know nothing about raising one but I know a few things about being raised. Today I randomly came across a conversation between TD Jakes and Steve…
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If you have one side of the story, you might be hurting someone on the other side of that story.
The other day I watched a video of someone trashing their partner and saying how this person was a terrible person, a bad mother, a bad wife, he was crying and shedding serious tears. This is a calm person unlike his partner in question who is a vibrant personality, sometimes controversial in her sense of…
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Children are the future.
I sometimes lose hope looking at the state of the world and seeing so much negativity, anger and hatred. I have seen a number of peope who have decided that they won’t bring children into such a world. I know though that when we look around intently we shall find so much good going on,…
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Words that old school parents only insinuate.
I love you. There is a category of parents from different tribes, ethnic groups, nationalities, …through different continents who just won’t say they love you. They can go to the Moon and back for you. They in fact do things that prove this. They will rip the coat off of their own back to cover…
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Why don’t we hold men to the same moral standards as women ?
For so long people who claim to transform the world and get rid of toxic masculinity and the patriarchy that formulates rules to keep a firm grip on women. One thing though is subtly handled and that is the morality standards by which women are held and yet men are supposed to live a life…