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Midnight Note
Richard Nkwenti
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Midnight Note: On the Unfinished
Some things are allowed to wait until morning.
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Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor
Integrative Medicine Scientist · Formulator · Poet · Alchemist · Builder
Bridging science and spirit. Creating solutions. Writing for those becoming more human.
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The Morning Oracle
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The Room You Keep
There is a room inside you that no achievement can furnish for you. Visit it this morning. Not to improve it, simply to sit in the one place...
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Midnight Note
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
On Being Unfinished
You are not a project that fell behind today. You are a person in progress, which is the only kind there has ever been. Lie down inside that...
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Reflection
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
On Measuring What Matters
We measure what is easy to count and then quietly forget what we left out. Every metric is a choice, and every choice casts a shadow — the t...
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Journal
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Mortality as a Teacher
What the awareness of an ending does to the ordinary day.
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The Morning Oracle
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
One Thing at a Time
The day will offer you twenty things at once. It does not mean you must hold twenty things at once. Choose one. Do it as though it were the...
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Reflection
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The Discipline of Finishing
Beginnings are exciting and endings are satisfying; almost everything difficult happens in the middle, where nothing is new and nothing is f...
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Midnight Note
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
What the Body Asks For
Listen for a moment to what the body is asking. Water, rest, the absence of a screen. It has been carrying you all day. Give it what it need...
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Poetry
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Ancestry
My grandmother's hands are in mine when I am patient with slow things. Somewhere behind my face a village is still standing, still carrying water, still naming children after weather. I am not the beginning. I am a continuation, and the debt is one I am glad...