<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:00:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@jasperigwe/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[When the Train Slows Down: Thoughts on Aging and Letting Go]]></title><description><![CDATA[I like to think of life as a moving train, its stages unfolding like stations along the route—infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age. 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I had meant to send her a text to stir up some memories,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-174578/@jasperigwe/of-textbooks-lies-and-agidi</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-174578/@jasperigwe/of-textbooks-lies-and-agidi</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-174578]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jasperigwe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:43:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2FFvzA2zeqoVPgRCnRzbu6rj6tCWHWVCA9ZaKB4ZqDwhja6bQsFfM3pJKv2gsE1AQaBdUZdgPCWP6XQS2JThXMog4yugUnSG4dZ9xeBc6YK8YY2yXLNoMd4tHgxgW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Music That Found Me When Nothing Else Could]]></title><description><![CDATA[When words failed and the world felt too loud, music held me like a language I didn’t need to translate. Image by ChatGPT I was 11 or 12 when I discovered music. 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Okay, here the thing.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-187189/@jasperigwe/how-being-different-feels-liberating</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-187189/@jasperigwe/how-being-different-feels-liberating</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-187189]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jasperigwe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:12:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/EEEoA8oLaAxtVnttk7BKQDWVRnh3rwiL2ZBsA8fAy2fdE285zvWxYkMwi9VtK2iHCs5cQJeXAw5UBbD61XWY1UFTwYJ3D7bxSf6fgAjkFUUKduVBPyWBJsTgUGddxgwCLrHs6mPwSLu7V6YLwJcQW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My local meal: boiled plantain & palm oil]]></title><description><![CDATA[> these are bunches of unpeeled plantains. Hello foodies, I present to you one of my local dishes, boiled unripe plantains eaten with palm oil. 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Not the shallow relationship]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-108045/@jasperigwe/on-friendship-and-loyalty</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-108045/@jasperigwe/on-friendship-and-loyalty</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-108045]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jasperigwe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 22:55:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/9vWp6aU4y8kx949aDJ3YN2aez4mhQcSxgCqbYBieUXTXL7hxE7opTUo6vdH9BtbqMnpBtpyWqXSrjsDARsEgahp2qwAPni77tQXEczAxjRVW9UGabBHTBnoqZMbcAVGZvaaU3VM6fkdrRZ9fC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hive Introduction Post: A Peek into the Person I Am]]></title><description><![CDATA[My name is Japer Igwe, and I'm, first and above all, a storyteller. Fiction. Nonfiction. Screenplay. But before that, a little more about my background, right? 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