Stephanie Swan

Unfortunately if you want to grow you need to be exposed to hard things. You need to wire your brain to think that you can actually bypass anything. You are most probably capable, you just have not tested that ability yet. Do hard things. 🤍

You'll be surprised by the many talents hidden within you if you gave yourself the permission to be a beginner.

The Makeup Artist. The Art.

So I co-wrote a play about an extraordinary woman. Wangari Maathai. Shujaa and all around Superwoman. Get your tickets!

You’re not supposed to half-listen to this album. You’re supposed to attend it. Start to finish. No distractions. No skipping. Because what @raye has done here isn’t just a collection of songs. It’s a full arc. A woman in real time. Still in it. Still figuring it out. Not waiting to be healed before she speaks. I went track by track and broke down what’s actually happening underneath it all. The shifts. The defence mechanisms. The moments people laugh past that are actually doing something deeper. It’s not just music. It’s structure. It’s survival. And more than anything, it’s honest in a way most people aren’t brave enough to be while they’re still in the middle of it. If you’ve only had this on in the background, you’ve missed the point. Substack out - open.substack.com/pub/mimithemus…

I think Mr Achebe would be upset to know that things are still falling apart.

Michael B. Jordan, and the B is for Best Actor. #Oscars

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

Our parents really ate with printing our pictures and putting them in albums.

Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi is one of one. those who get it, get it and those who don't? well, too bad.

You’ve heard of writer’s block? Now meet the reader’s block. You want to read... You have time. You know what to read... You have a pile of books ready to read... But you can't sit still enough to read...

Can we normalize returning summaries to the backs of the books again instead of reviews and praises? I just want to know what the book is about.

Pineapple better take notes from mango and deliver when its season comes.

This me coming for everything that’s mine.

ⓘ This user is obsessed with reading books and overthinking.

You owe yourself endless restarts to build the things you believe in.

Just impatiently waiting for the day I finally come across one of these in the wild

The private collaboration between author and reader is so beautiful to me. A stranger writes a book full of words and I get to paint it in my mind. How wonderful.

sade performing “the sweetest taboo” to cleanse your timeline ✨

How clever is my daughter, all drawn by her for the personal touch, now this is wrapping paper you just cannot buy ❤️🎅❤️🎄❤️