T is for Titi
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My name is Titi and I am a story teller. I hope my stories make you smile, laugh and brings some sunshine to your day.
T is for Titi
2y ago
I have experienced bias. In different ways, scenarios, geographies…..
Gender related
Race related
Seniority related
Experience related
Appearance related
Pay related
You don’t think it could be you. I never thought it could happen to me.
You probably know someone on the receiving end. She just didn’t speak up. Or tell you.
Your sister, mother, aunty, cousin, wife, partner, colleague, neighbour. You. Me.
You’d be surprised. I was.
Break the bias.
Break your bias.
Stop the bias.
Stop your bias.
Check your bias. Conscious and unconscious. Start today. Start now.
Challenge your th ..read more
T is for Titi
2y ago
Happy “Twosday”!! How many people noticed today’s date of 22.02.2022? Or if you’re like me, have been waiting for it?!
This is the UK format for those who might be wondering….
So. The date is very unique for a number of reasons (pun intended ).
22.02.2022 is a palindrome, meaning it reads the same forwards as it does backward!
22.02.2022 is also an ambigram, meaning that if you arrange the digits of the date in vertical order, it will read the same upside down as well!! (Do it yourself)
Plus, this date won’t happen again for 400 years or 200!! (depending on the publication you find ..read more
T is for Titi
2y ago
HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE!! “A year in a day” – that was the title of the first blog I wrote, 3 years ago on January 1, 2018. The day I started this ‘ere blog.
I wrote stories growing up, scribbling in notebooks wherever I could find them. Essay writing was not hard for me at all! I started a micro blog when I left the UK and came to the US in 2012. It was for the company I worked for, writing about my life in America, both in and outside the office, for the UK peeps. There I was, a management consultant on a 12-month role as an “Ambassador” in the Global Marketing organization, it was excit ..read more
T is for Titi
3y ago
Hey lady, yes you, beautiful, unique you reading this.
Go. Grow. See. Be. Become.
Laugh. Learn. Love. Live. Believe.
Give. Take. Sit. Stand. Stand out.
Do. Dare. Dance. Dream. Design.
Smile. Sing. Shine. Fly. Conquer.
Own. Share. Do. Dance. Deliver.
Climb. Walk. Strut. Run. Radiate.
Eat. Sleep. Dream. Reach. Relax.
Be Bold. Be free. Align. Re-align!
Say it. Feel it. Do it. Give your self permission.
Beautiful you. Unique you!
Happy #internationalwomensday!
Written by Titi Osu on 8 March 2021. Copyright ©2021 by Titi Osu.
All rights reserved. No part of this poem may be reproduced in ..read more
T is for Titi
3y ago
I lost my faith
I lost my say
I found myself
along the way.
Along the way
I walked, I skipped
I fell and bruised
my heart, my feet.
My heart, my feet,
my house, my chi
I grow, I feel
alive beneath.
Alive beneath
these clothes of steel
I force my eyes
to breathe surreal.
To breathe surreal
A world insane
Strength in my name
I feel no pain.
I feel no pain
I’ve all to gain
my world I dream
a light within.
A light within
a sign of peace
I’m reaching for
mankind supreme.
I lost my faith
along the way
my heart, my feet,
alive beneath.
To breathe surreal,
I feel no pain
a light within
mank ..read more
T is for Titi
3y ago
Otherwise known as “Twelfth night”, meaning the twelfth day after Christmas, which means the end of the “twelve days of Christmas”, also known as Twelvetide in some circles or Chrismastide in others; and generally referred to as the official end of Christmas/the festive season and/or most importantly, the day widely believed (especially if you’re British!), as the day when your Christmas tree/Christmas decorations should be taken down. Good?
Ok. Thank you. So what day is that then?
Good question. I was waiting for you to ask. Depending on your religious leaning, superstitious tendencies or pla ..read more
T is for Titi
3y ago
I don’t even know where to start so I’ll just start writing and ranting because it’s all too much. The words are swirling around not understanding or knowing what to do with themselves. About a week ago I heard about “#EndSARS” protests by youths in some cities in Nigeria, Lagos having the most. My siblings shared some photos and videos in our WhatsApp group. I had no idea what “SARS” meant or was about. I sometimes have my head in a bubble and avoid the news, frankly especially “Naija” news because a lot of times I just go “WHAT NOW”? Then I take to the internet…..social media to be precise ..read more
T is for Titi
4y ago
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
When I look beyond my face
into my mind’s eye
I see
my face, my mind
.........my eye.
My spirit
I search my heart for soul’s essence
I find
my spirit, my heart
.........the essence of my soul.
In my mind’s eye
I can see my soul
I want to feel my soul
I want to feel
its essence
the face of my spirit
is me
.........I am soul.
Written by Titi Osu in November 2000
(c) All Rights Reserved ..read more
T is for Titi
4y ago
When I moved from England to America in June 2012 that was when I realised I was….black. Titi what? I can probably pinpoint when that thought confusing thought hit me. I think it was a form I was filing out and the only “category” available to me was “African American”. But you’re not “African American”…..? I wanted to explain. I didn’t understand what I was trying to understand at the time. Is African American the term for….black? So if you’re not this, you’re that? It was when I heard Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie say this same thing in an interview years later, that knew I wasn’t crazy for ..read more
T is for Titi
4y ago
Every day we live in fear
Fear?
Fear that something good will happen
Fear of change?
You changing?
Fear of dealing with too much change?
Fear that through action or no action
This change will end up being….bad…no change?
and then we’re right back where we started
Living in fear.
Every day we live in fear
Fear?
Fear that something bad will happen
Fear of changes?
Them changing?
Fear of worrying about not enough change?
Fear that someone is not doing enough, not doing anything
They don’t know what to do to make….a change?
Fear that takes us right back to where we started
Living in fear.
Every da ..read more