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Keep stars!
When it’s over, we will still say that we were bright like stars. So many things tried to dim our light, but like stars we stood brighter than the clouds on any given day. When it’s over, we don’t want to regret anything. Not the times we worked with people crazier than the skies on…
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Keep these devotions!
In the midst of another tornado, we spotted a rainbow. The rain was heavy, so was the day. Another tornado. The 4th one in a row. Clearly these days are not playing by the rules. Clearly tornadoes are rewriting the rules. Clearly, we are glad to be alive. Clearly glad to be breathing even if…
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Keep planting dreams!
To be drenched in a stream of flowing smiles, to see the smiles, your own and those of others, and smile letting this life and all it brings flow like ripples at the edge of two rivers, to know that smiles can be used for clarity, for conversations that feel like growth, for connections that…
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Keep this trust!
The idea of an entire sea within, one always expanding, full of love too from within you, with grace and gratitude, is the reason we trust. Above all else we are putting our trust in God and reminding ourselves like our son’s name, Olisa ga dubem…
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Keep this necessary suffering!
We often stay on a path that we are already on, even if it’s going nowhere. I’m learning these days that life is full of necessary suffering, full of losses and renewal, full of a downward part to growth and imperfection. For everything you have, always be prepared and plan to lose it, so that…
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Keep falling upward!
Some of us have been called to do something more. By grace and guts, we will do it.
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Keep these notes!
Her final notations of a life not simple, life not long, life not little, but a life full of thought, life full of heart, life full of air, is that life will still be short, it will still not be simple, and you will endure. A reminder: You can’t gatekeep global health from women who…
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Keep your dreams!
My dreams are long and continuous. They cannot be separated from my every day life. Some days are ragged. Take the last three weeks of questions around funding global health. Other days are coarse. Take too the lack of stance on supporting global health. Still I know it will take everything to silence voices external,…
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Keep this heroic global health movement!
As a community, I write on behalf of us all. We don’t need any one story, any singular experience as the experience that personifies what global health means for all of us. Not when all experiences matter. In the words of Toni Morrison, what we need now is a heroic global health movement, one assertive,…
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Keep the tears!
Today I cried. I let the tears flow for awhile. No need playing strong. Tears were all we knew. So I sat back in my chair looking out the window. Rain was falling as it should, with drops that mirrored the ones flowing down my eyes. We have been told that the urgency for today…
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Keep the plan for roads that lead to light!
I imagine life is like a road. Some roads will take you down a path of strife. Everything from the beginning through to the middle and even the end would feel unreal. You will keep looking for ways to leave the road, take any turn out of it, only to find yourself walking through a…
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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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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 