Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep a joyful day!
They possess a look, a feel, a thing, that can only be described as joy. Those many may not know. Those hidden. Those few remember. Those we choose to keep. For day after day and of course on this most colorful day, they help us spread joy to all. Happy Halloween from my joyful family…
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Keep the gift of life
These days, I’m aware that today is a gift. Tomorrow, a treasure. What I can do is visit, stay awhile, smile, eat good food, run, and maybe laugh with a mango gelato at hand. We have come for a moment. It may be forever or a day. Still, I’ll like to live as if tomorrow…
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Keep Black Women!
The day begins with love. To women everywhere, especially those black and hive. Those that smile when we arrive. Those who switch tongues on overdrive. Those who blow kisses that jive. Those whose laughter we archive. Those who stay unmasked and alive. Those yearning for all the ways we thrive. Those who celebrate all the…
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Keep this gentle life!
This reminder that life is good, live gently gently, whether fire, always hope, wonder too, be surprised, with everything, things unseen, then sing like oceans, skies love you, your destiny too, was part of the miracle of today, with all the scars of a plan that persists. Keep it. Words inspired by Ben Okri.
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Keep being rooted!
How do you make research unquestionably influential and at the same time beautiful or powerful? I’m learning and I saw examples today for example that stuck with three take home messages that resonated with me. First, you retain your message, then you retrain yourself to remember the message, then finally, do everything in your power…
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Keep this meaning of life!
For the freedom of your dreams, future joys and open eyes, live. Through ways silent and wise, the seed of your spirit and undiscovered roads, learn. When things happen and everything changes, pray. Through time and life, through the best and worst in souls, love. The above are from Ben Okri. My mood for this…
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Keep leaning not on your own!
October of another year and I still see eyes, wide that mirror my soul. I am still daring heights with wonder and dreams still nestle in my soul. I know hope is a thing you never do alone, even if you die alone. I keep finding it all the way down in myself, where it…
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Keep boldly facing death!
Nearly half of our lives are gone. Most of all we will do have been done. There may be new dreams, new deeds, new actions, many inactions, but most of what we would call life is close to being done. So what remains. They realization that we can’t be troubled. The end is death. It’s…
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Keep dreaming again!
If by chance you come across a dream so old, so hidden, it’s invisible even to you who once dreamed this dream, don’t flee, dream again. See that dream in your eyes again, follow the direction of its scent, retrace your footsteps back to the place where your dreams first began, until you begin to…
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Keep knowing your dreams are valid, visible, your dreams!
If I have never dreamed, saw others dream, leaned against the wall knowing dreams are hard, always distant, like a thing for others, those they call experts, with many degrees after their names, few like mine, my dreams like yours, always distant and denied, always denied despite how many times we tried. If I have…
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Keep following your path!
The insides of my thoughts, after a dizzying season of grant writing goes like this: what’s the next one? any other one? how about another one? surely there must be another one. We follow these thoughts down the path where ideas go to labor, we peek, we pry, we resolve instead to not sit and cry,…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 