A Person of My People

Reflections from Summer 2018. A piece by Sandra C. Bamisile ©

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Being Nigerian in Nigeria is something nearly profound. There is a comfort that creeps over my skin. It is almost suffocating how magnificent it feels to be your own person among your own people. It is almost bewildering how ecstatic I am to eat the food of my people by my people, with my people.

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A Person of My People

Reflections from Summer 2018. A piece by Sandra C. Bamisile ©

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Being Nigerian in Nigeria is something nearly profound. There is a comfort that creeps over my skin. It is almost suffocating how magnificent it feels to be your own person among your own people. It is almost bewildering how ecstatic I am to eat the food of my people by my people, with my people.

Legend Series: Maya Angelou

I am starting a new series where I expose on some grand pieces of poetry I feel the whole wide world can further appreciate in depth. I will also be looking into the lives lived or being lived by these great people.

There is therefore no more suitable piece to start the series with than the piece – Still I Rise- written by the amazing and impressive Maya Angelou who lived from (1928-2014).

Be Thankful

A Poem written by Ayivi Williams © All rights reserved

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Be thankful for what you have.

You have got all the things that you want.

Others do not have half of what you have.

Yet, you still want to go in for what they’ve got.

Be careful never to covet what your friends have.

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A Dream I Remembered

Featured piece written by Megan Paulsen

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Drunk and sea-bound, it seemed I had finally arrived at that softer, kinder place with you.Where time welcomed us with hands open and upward.

Silent Fighter

Featured work by Krystal (Gypsy) Orellano

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When I look at old pictures of you,
I see God’s girl Legacy.
I often wonder if you remember me.
I really don’t want to bother you,
so please save your energy.
We haven’t talked in a while.
Funny how distance blends time together.

Photography With Cobus Fourie

Today’s featured work is by a South African legend in the making Marthinus Jacobus Fourie. Before we proceed, here are some words from the man himself.

Pelayo

It is my birthday today. Maybe no one will remember me. 

Yet I am happy within and so thankful to God for the life He has given me.

I know life is not easy and it shouldn’t always be. It may test me, judge me, but may lead me to several results.

One day has value. One hour has much more than that. One minute is even better, and each second given to reading this is perhaps the most valuable gift to me.

So give value to life now, you can change it or it may change you.

~ Thoughts by Pelayo

Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are past away. Behold all things have become new.

~ 2 Corinthians 4:17