Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep the power of your name)
And with you I dream. I do so in way like poetry. You make this life worth living.
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Keep your impact!
Twice today, I found myself speechless. The first was from a woman named poem. A name given to her by her father. She shared how writing as I do here has been inspiring to her in a way that I didn’t even know. I was speechless and grateful that these words give many comfort in…
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Keep telling the truth
If and when you tell the truth, even if it hurts, only the telling matters. These days, I am seeing stories burst out of me that tell the truth from the bottom of my heart. There is no room for small talk, we are easily bored and we hate paying for things unnecessary like another…
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Keep Easter!
The enormity of rain, with all its drops, that thrust from the skies above to the earth below, is that it empties itself out, Iike words written as if from the core of an empty tomb. Only the tomb is not empty and we have memorized how to rise from the dead and these words…
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Keep this vigil
Nothing stops the agony, ends the worry, understands the hurry, that, surpasses the glory, and sustains the story, of the time the son of God, rose from the dead. Nothing
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Keep Good Friday!
Blood and water gushed from sides where man stood as God. If life ends today, I hope our sides are full of water, full of blood, full of things that bend with light.
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Keep astonishing with your light!
Perhaps we do not want to be remembered. Perhaps we do not want to be praised either. Perhaps we desire no fame. Perhaps we choose instead to live quietly. Perhaps we prefer no one knew we existed. Perhaps we choose instead to serve the highest forces in the universe. Perhaps we choose to be unseen.…
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Keep planting!
I may not have planted you. I did not water you. But I love you every Spring, with the joy of a thousand seeds. I did not plant you, but in you, I uncover things long buried within, happiness, devotion, eternal Spring for a seed planted and watered with care. I did not plant you,…
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Keep this joyful (grantwriting) life!
If you abandon life and the world, you will find the life of the world. So says Rumi. This idea of surrender, the need to empty the glass of our desire, to know the joy of our souls, to stop looking for something out there and start with seeing from within is the reason why…
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Keep transforming!
Toni Morrison once shared that certain kinds of trauma visited on people are so deep, so cruel… that only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning that sharpens imagination. Tonight, I began a transformational journey that only time will tell the story of its outcome. Till then, keep this.
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Keep your gifts from God or Happy Birthday Chiwetel!
Some children can be smooth, full of ease, while others can be rough, with little peace. Some can give gifts others withhold, rising and setting like the sun on any day. Others teach you nothing but silence and prayers plus rest for the night. You give us all this and more, with our hearts understanding…
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Keep this appreciation!
Here is the thing I heard today: Appreciation is an application for more things to come. So I am simply showing some appreciation for all the ways life remains like a cup that overflows with every single word you read here. You are all appreciated for continuing this journey with me.