Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep things delicate!
The word was delicate. In a class assignment tonight (yes I am taking classes hence my absence here), I joined late but just in time to begin writing the first thoughts that came to mind with the word delicate. The assignment without using the word, tell a story, write a poem, do or say anything…
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Keep the knowledge and birthday of our Belle.
I would liken her to a star. Not those up in the skies, but the stars within. I would liken her to the moon. Not the kind that appears in the sky at night. But the moon within. I would liken her to the sun. Not the one that shines so brightly on a clear…
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Keep this quiet storm!
The roosters are coming home. Every single one of them. What they forgot is that we are where we are by design. Where they fail to understand or see our worth, we know it to be our worth. Nothing we touch is by accident. We decide too what we touch. So it gives me great…
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Keep knowing that being fearless still with your funds are enough!
I am learning these days, that everything beautiful about the world we live in is enough. That’s what Toni Morrison would want us to remember. With the craziness of a day, even the crazy things we experience is enough. Like our fearless funds. Sometimes words too are not needed. No need to speak or share…
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Keep the power of poetry, writing!
We are on a mission to widen and deepen our understanding of what we know and don’t know about everything there is to know of why we write as we do. Adrienne Rich is our guide. Imagine breaking down the world as you have always known it. Doing so through an art of your own.…
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Keep this month of June, our month of beginnings, of love!
If you retrace the steps that led to Belle, move back to the paths we crossed and the people and places too. If turn back to the moments where our souls shivered in admiration of things simple, like falling rain, the heavenly scent of leaves after rain, the warmth of the sun, or song of…
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Keep peace!
There is a certain kind of peace I long for these days. The kind that lets me be. Free, with no demands. No strings attached, no noise, no worries too. Just a life lived well, my way, because peace flowed like a river.
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Keep this collective “we” if black, female and in academia!
These days I am seeing, not myself, not work, not my family, not my children and lord knows I love all four of them. I am seeing instead a collective we. With insights that help to re-vision a future we. When eyes finally see, it doesn’t float free pretending that “I” am alone in struggle.…
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Keep seeing the world as children and cicadas do!
We have held giant lizards, held tiny alligators, touched snakes as yellow as the sun and hummed to the sounds of cicadas. Summer is only just beginning And this summer in Saint Louis, is the season of children, of sitting in the shadows of children, sitting in their joyful lane, in a season where joy…
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Keep, keep, sustaining the public’s health!
In 1988, the Institute of Medicine published a report that explored the future of public health. They concluded then that “public health was a vital function that requires broad concern and support in other to fulfill society’s interest in assuring the conditions in which people can be healthy.” Back then, they echoed the critical importance…
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Keep this self-portrait!
A dreamer, a believer, star gazer and breeder, and a lover of full moons. Steady like black ants, marching, unwavering, persistent. Chatty, tenacious, stubborn, bold, full of hope, for no certain outcome and for certain outcomes. Impediments and struggle, Together with legacy and tomorrow Are like the sun and it flowers, A duality that matter,…
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