Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep the magnificence of the universe in mind!
For the first time in 800 years, my kids and I saw Jupiter in close proximity to Saturn. If you know anything about my kids, my boys in particular, you would know how deep they love the planets. In fact, on two different occasions, for Halloween, they have both dressed up as Astronauts. If you…
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Keep wearing masks!
In the process of moving things around my house, I came across some masks in my collection. It got me thinking about today’s keep. I wear masks. Maybe for self-preservation, self-protection and out of an abundance of caution. But I wear masks. My innermost thoughts, of how I feel, how I act, how I even…
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Keep running your own race!
Homeschooling 2020 came to an end on Thursday/Friday. This keep is in praise of all the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncle and even friends of families that helped make it work. It’s also in praise of all children, their courage, resilience through this pandemic of a lifetime. Many may assume that because children are home that…
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Keep hope, even with the pandemic!
Yesterday, my husband, a frontline healthcare worker got his covid19 vaccination. I was elated, emotional and happy for him and all healthcare workers who risked their lives throughout the pandemic to save lives often at the expense of their own life. Just this fall, on two separate occasions, we had to go into quarantine due…
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Keep together!
My daughter’s class made mini Christmas trees for their teacher. When we got the assignment early on during the week, I must honestly say I felt that it was a waste of time. Alone, I had no idea about what she was doing, except that the instructions said, string two small pieces of wood together…
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Keep L.I.F.E questions in mind!
In the ‘Book of Beautiful Questions’ by Warren Berger, he provided tips for warming up your questioning muscle. One of them focused specifically on what families can do with their children using the acronym L.I.F.E. L stands for little, I stands for information, F stands for failure and E stands for Exchange. The L.I.F.E questions…
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Keep asking questions my children!
These days, I consider it pure joy when my children ask questions, especially questions that stump me. Like when will the pandemic end? Or why do we still have school, even homeschooling the week before Christmas. Or this one that warmed my heart, why do we give presents on Christmas Day? My daughter thinks it’s…
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Keep those that correct you!
Have you tried to put a baby to sleep at 4am?That’s my dilemma now. So I decided to mediate on the word. And here is what the Lord said to me this morning: ‘those who love knowledge want to be told when they are wrong.’ That was my meditation for today from Proverbs chapter 12…
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Keep love!
One of my sons rarely has time for small talks. Except if it involves planets. He also rarely gets emotional. Except when he is crying for something missing. When he becomes vulnerable, especially when he becomes profoundly into you or something that absorbs his mind, he becomes an emblem of empathy, a tower of sincerity,…
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Keep being open-minded to new things!
I read the other day that as our knowledge grows, we become less open to new ideas, new ways of thinking, new ways of behaving, even new ways of being. We are intrinsically connected to the old. Something about comfort, ease, experience, makes us want to stick with the familiar rather than exploring new terrains…
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Keep people in mind!
It seems so simple, that people should matter with efforts to curtail a pandemic. Yet we are our own worst enemies. Case in point, an essay I read yesterday on the blog sapiens one why the CDC needs social science. Robert Hahn an anthropologist and epidemiologist who recently retired from the CDC, shared insights of…
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Keep things simple!
There is something wild and powerful about choosing simplicity. It is also liberating, when choices are simple, easy and effortless by design. I have been on a purposeful progression towards simple. Especially with my family. In choosing simplicity, we went for a walk at Forest Park yesterday. The weather was beautiful for a December day…
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