#journeysoulfully

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It's getting to be that time again! Can't wait to finish this journal...but I'm savouring these last pages. Have you noticed a journal feels heavier when it's done? Oh my, your story. #journeysoulfully #journaling #amwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/BCxmGmzldD3/?igshid=yn7s7e4cks4

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There are times and seasons hoping you understand what they are saying. There is direction wondering if you're familiar with its dialogue. Events with dense dialect rolling from their tongue. And then there's your soul regarding your pace, asking herself, "I wonder if she knows what all of this means?" #vagabroadjournals #journeysoulfully (at Paris Baguette) https://www.instagram.com/p/BZjCN32jekC/?igshid=12eo1glyfym4y

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When things are good, who are you? When things are bad, who do you become? Review your notes. Make decisions. Discern and decide. Journey Soulfully. (More journals are coming, promise.) #journeysoulfully #vagabroadjournals #teastainedwoman (at Bedford-Stuyvesant) https://www.instagram.com/p/BcskOp9j-mq/?igshid=1fsx13pg1stq

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We are alive to finish a task started long before us. In order to complete it we live to listen for the Divinely-relayed instructions; we pay attention to what characterizes our alotted space in history for implementing our mandate on time, in time. These things we see transpiring around us with: “My how times have change!” and “Back in my day...” and “What’s going on these days?” etc. are occurrences of note. They seem sidereal when isolated, but when their narratives are archived in a tome and placed in the library of ancestory, create history. . . Are you living to testify to what you have seen in your times? Are you contributing your book to your ancestral library? Respect what it means to be a living witness. You may be the last to have experienced the consequences of a law. You may be the last to have felt that river flow without pollution or the glow of the setting sun unhindered by a new building on the street. You too may be the last to have seen a tragedy, victory, or other event. Regard your times with pen in hand. The next generation needs your personal testimony to know what to write next. . . (Image via Workers.org, 2018. Olivia Hooker. Last survivor of the Black Wallstreet Massacre in Tulsa, OK, 1921. First Black woman to join the coast guard. Telling time until 103. Elder-turned-ancestor, 1915-2018.) #vagabroadjournals #thinkingteastainedwoman #journeysoulfully https://www.instagram.com/p/BqlHPUVFiQX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=91wgavfomrib

[writerchiclady]

@vagabroadjournals is out here giving me all kinds of feelings today! This is not one of the tea stained journals I got, but they're all so beautiful and necessary!!! REPOST from @vagabroadjournals - As women of color we don't have Thoreau's privilege to take extensive sabbaticals from life and return to society when we feel like it, with a book ready to be published. We all cannot be like Jack Kerouac, go "on the road," then beast out a book in 8hours on a typewriter. We all can't be Emily Dickinson and lock ourselves in a room too afraid to live, writing poetry that our siblings publish for us. There is a different weight that comes with being a teastained woman and having stories to tell; the greatest of which is to be both emotionally and spiritually healthy as we Journey Soulfully. We may not have the luxury of dropping everything and spending years "finding ourselves" by wandering in the woods or having a family that coddles our fear to step outside of our bedroom and live poetry instead of just writing it. We might not have the luxury of not knowing or caring what's going on in society with regards to our fellow man—or knowing and eat-pray-loving anyhow. But we do have this privilege: a RICH history, ancestry that sings to us. A history of being blugeoned and continuing anyhow; relentless resilience that bears children even though their fathers' lifeless bodies are hanging from trees or sisters have been bombed in sunday school; of royal kingdoms that have fought colonialism and lost their land, but retained their languages/dialects (hail up, South Pacific and Caribbean peoples!!). We do have the beautiful freedom of pen, paper, and reasoning, discerning minds to write our stories with our own voices and keep ourselves both to ourselves and our nations/ generations. We have power to write our when and narrate our why. It's unbeatable. It belongs to us if we take it. Write yourself down. You might not have beaucoup time and leisure but you have the tools to take good notes and write good books that you can leave for your progeny. #vagabroadjournals #journeysoulfully #journaling thanks for the image, Sydney!

[earthimani]

Happy Sunrise beautiful people, what are you eating/drinking for breakfast? #fuelup . . Today, we will be sending out the rest of the orders from after April 7th. Please look out for your tracking information after 5pm today! We are so grateful for the love + support received. . . Remember, ALL products are handmade, labeled, packaged + shipped with love within 14 days. If you have any questions, we ask that you email us [email protected] . ✨ Love • Light • Gratitude ✨ . . . #earthimani ~ #soulpick ~ #motherearth ~ #earthmedicine ~ #selflove ~ #selfcare ~ #love ~ #nature ~ #holistichealth ~ #healing ~ #healthyself ~ #grounding ~ #ecofriendly ~ #etsy ~ #fbf ~ #photooftheday ~ #quoteoftheday ~ #journeysoulfully ~ #inspiration ~ #photooftheday ~ #wcw ~ #rawfood ~ #vegan ~ #instagood ~ #wellness

[deliciarashad]

"[My handwriting] says that I'm strong yet frayed. I'm not always clear but I'm open." What does your handwriting say about you? Check out my queen friend's @vagabroadjournals site to see what other journalistas had to say about their handwriting and start a dialogue if your own. Also be sure to check out the interview of the latest tea stained soulful journalist @julianaluna! #journeysoulfully #VagabroadJournals #semoiticarrhythmics #handwriting #thoughts #journaling

[deliciarashad]

If you haven't, be sure to head over to @vagabroadjournals to read my full interview on my journaling practices and inspiration behind my poetry. 🙏 #VagabroadJournals #drpoetry #poetry #poetryofig #journaling #journeysoulfully #teastainedwoman #journalist #writing #thoughts #poetofcolor #author #deliciarashad