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Letters From The Throne
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
A Letter to the Person You Are Becoming
On the long, unglamorous work of growing into yourself.
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Midnight Note
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
On Saying Goodnight to Grief
You do not have to solve grief tonight, or finish it, or justify it. You only have to let it rest beside you while you rest too. It can keep...
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Reflection
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The Uses of Disappointment
Disappointment is not proof that you aimed too high. It is proof that you aimed at something real enough to lose. The alternative — never ri...
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The Morning Oracle
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Grief Keeps Its Own Calendar
Grief does not follow your schedule. It arrives on ordinary Tuesdays and leaves when it is ready. You do not have to be finished with it. Yo...
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Journal
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The Long Apprenticeship
On the years that do not appear in the résumé.
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Reflection
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Attention as a Form of Love
We tend to measure love in grand gestures, but it is more often built from attention: the unhurried question, the remembered detail, the pho...
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Midnight Note
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The Quiet After
After the noise of a day, the quiet can feel almost accusing. Let it be a mercy instead. Nothing is required of you now but to be here, unhu...
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The Morning Oracle
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Choose the Harder Kindness
Kindness is easy when it costs nothing. The version that matters is the one that tells the truth, keeps the boundary, or stays when leaving...
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The Temple
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The Inner Room
A quiet place you can return to without going anywhere.
There are rooms within us that noise cannot enter. Sometimes healing begins when we finally become quiet enough to find them.
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The Morning Oracle
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
What Rest Is For
Rest is not a reward for finished work; it is part of how the work gets done. The mind consolidates in the quiet. Take the rest before you h...