Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep all the ways you see!
Even though we look back to analyze events of our lives, Rumi notes that there is another way of seeing, a backward and a forward at once vision, even if you don’t understand.
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Keep your why!
When will you have a pity for every soft thing that walks through the world including yourself? These words by Mary Oliver forced me to begin this note that I didn’t want to write. Some things have walked through this life, through some chapters that left me saying it’s better for the heart to break…
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Keep knowing nothing even matters!
Music full of soul, illuminates your core, nourishing you whole, as when God said let their be light, and you sing, full. Today, we sang, we asked how does it feel, we remembered nothing even matters, not when we are so full. Sleep, sleep well.
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Keep the genesis of a plan!
If there is an ache and you are confused, perhaps the only thing left to do is dream. When you learn a craft, practice it, otherwise what use is your knowledge about sustainment if you can’t sustain anything. The genesis of your plan, is perhaps your greatest treasure. Keep it.
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Keep your dreams!
We build with what we have, with stone, some sand, a little bit of cloud and a lot full of dreams all pieced together. Super proud of her!
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Keep your light!
The essence of darkness is light and night, day and just as the sun comes up every morning, it will surely go down at night.
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Keep Empowering Women in Leadership: Sharing Experience and Expertise.
I stand here today because of the women who came before me. Women who fought for their voices to be heard, who persevered in the face of adversity, and who paved the way for me to stand on this stage. As Chinua Achebe so eloquently put it, “Women have the insight for survival.” “I think…
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Keep the determination of grass!
I hope we never forget that the world will be what it will be for a long time. Never forget too the determination of the grass to grow despite all the obstacles it faces.
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Keep seeking to last through with light!
We discern the end from the beginning. Many were there from the beginning, hence why the beginning is clear. Notes are written. Visions are vivid and yet the end, for many comes and fades as if the beginning held no clues. Will you fail? Will it be difficult? Of course. But what if we tried,…
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Keep leaning!
Lean into all your complexity. Lean into all that make you chaotic. Lean into your strengths. Lean into your joy. Lean into your pain. Lean into your hurdles. Lean into kindness, for ourselves, the world. Lean into all that make you tender, whether you succeed or fail. Lean into all that make you free, like…
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Keep what you know with sustainment
The issue isn’t only that we can’t sustain anything. The issue is that we lack understanding of the people, the lessons, the changes or land what we should nurture as we sustain anything.