Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep dreaming!
I have been reading dreams of a common language by Adrienne Rich and these words, below reflected my way with a dash of Toni Morrison, are what I will keep as i close a chapter of my life, one where I finally learned to fly, though as a new chapter begins… She was not a…
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Keep knowing they will never take your power!
How do you find voice in a space that would rather stifle it? How to you even confront the fear of expression knowing that what you say or do can be used against you? They say often that there is a bad side to life in academia. I saw it with my two eyes this…
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Keep fighting for God’s glory.
The past couple of days have been trying. I expected this. But living through it has been something else. But here is what I’ll keep. Know your worth. I came for a higher glory. I lived for a greater good. None of that changes even if my decisions with life seems unsettling. I am still…
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Keep Beyoncé’s Renaissance for Dissemination and Implementation Science!
I am a researcher, an implementation scientist and Ms Carter is my teacher. Name anyone whose career for over 25 years has closed a know do gap with implementing and disseminating anything they created within a year without waiting for 15 years. Chances are Beyoncé would not come to mind. Ignore her though at your…
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Keep this peace!
You will begin again in light. You will step out beyond your comfort zone. Step out to the middle of an ocean. Step into waters that will not drown you. Your feet will stand firm remembering How to stand. When you feel like falling. When you do not know whether you will survive or how…
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Keep all things you love
I write this. Not for you who fight to write your own words…but you who neither fear nor fight. I write this reminding you always to choose you. The world seems vast. It can also be remote and unfamiliar. But love for yourself will win and win.
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Keep smiling!
The first artwork my last baby, the one born during the early months of the pandemic brought back from school will forever be cherished. Not because he is a budding artist. But rather for it’s simple message. Smile. Tomorrow will be better. Smile. Today may seem messy. Smile. Tomorrow is all you need. So smile.
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Keep this Rest!
Some people want to know when it all happened? Truth is if you have been following my blog you would have seen why proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten. I have been intentional with using this space to reflect on my life in academia as well as my parenting. Nothing is…
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Keep a new school year.
Yesterday was the start of a new school year. It was also the start of Pre-K for my baby born during the early months of the pandemic. I was overwhelmed and very anxious for him. He cried and stopped and cried and stopped and eventually we were forced to leave. He seemed to take it…
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Keep remembering all the ways to carry water!
I am feeling both ordinary and magic. Ordinary and magic at this crossroads where life transitions to the next. I am feeling like wandering and striding only worlds that allow me to dream as life continues and continues. The power of words, always a muse. The loss of people I hold dear, a reminder. How…
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Keep turning into your own!
I am taking this poetry thing a bit further. I came across the golden shovel way of poetry writing. It’s where you take a short poem in its entirety or a line from the poem called a striking line and create a new poem using words from the original poem. Each line in the new…
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Keep knowing failure leads to your superpower!
This is about failure. A reminder that it fortifies growth. Those focused on success or places far, the ideas just outside the box and with no path to funding. Those that force us to arise or learn to trust. All the ways we seek for real knowledge not whittled down by requirements. All things focused…
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