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  • 3 in the morning insomnia at my door

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    So JV and Sarah are coming to visit tomorrow, and my place is spic n span waiting for them, and my babies get their tonsils out tomorrow, I have special hugs waiting for them. Without further adieu my 4 AM rant. We come to you live with crusties still in my eyes. International text messaging…

  • You might want to skip this one

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    ocbenji

    I’m still pretty much the same. Just upgraded a little here and there but still essentially the same. Like the same car but with different wheels and computer system. I’ve been a little inspirationally starving even though I’ve had lots of that kind of food shoved my way. Its like I have the lamp that…

  • For HipHop Sunday

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    ocbenji

    Born To Be Who were you born to be? If you don’t know then turn the question right back at me I was born to shine brighter than the sun in the savanna Success and me are expected monkey with a banana Because I was made by God, same as you Thats why there’s no…

  • I think we call it Procrastination in this country

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    ocbenji

    I’ve been really inspired as of late and I’ll probably need to read this stuff this winter so here goes another insightfully (word?) insightful rants….. We all have these things in the back of our heads, things that we want to get done, people that we need to catch up with, or dreams or aspirations…

  • Guac Eyes Part 1

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    ocbenji

    He races through the sheets of rain down the road driving as cautious as one can at 95 in a thick fog, he loosens his necktie and begins to rerun the events of the day and how he made it to this point. His day started as regular as any other with a shower and…

  • Deja Aden Vu

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    ocbenji

    He watches his son ask he begs for 5 more minutes of a movie he sees a glimpse of the future. One of those glimpses like deja vu that he always sees and forgets only to see it again as it happens. He sees his son older as he saw his younger brother, as he…

  • I know the secret

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    ocbenji

    I had one of those life changing, mind opening, out of the box, duh! weekends. Have you ever known and believed in something, some idea, some force, some feeling but couldn’t find anyway to explain it and then BAM! It smacks you right in the face and you start looking at everything different. Like eating…

  • IF YOU THINK YOU CAN

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    “We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabolous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the…

  • A Good Word from a Good Book

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    “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining…

  • So nice had to post it twice

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    ocbenji

    some days i guess you just need to let yourself be caught when you fall. how do you say thank you for that? “thanks for grabbing me right before i slipped off the edge into an abyss.” how do you let someone know that you appreciate their company and silence together? “i needed to be…