Category: Research is People
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Keep all your invisible inks!
The images you have of me. Mother, researcher, doing work in far away places. All of them are true. But those that are invisible. Everything hidden, under, and in between the lines like Toni Morrison’s invisible ink, are the bones that keep me tall and erect. One day, I will leave you hoping to see…
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Keep planting seeds for people’s health!
Langston Hughes has a poem of how a seed planted at the right time, produces flower, that go on to become more than the seed ever imagined. Imagine if the path to health and wellbeing was like a seed. Imagine how we will blossom when we become flower. All because we took the time to…
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Keep these words!
If at all you decide to walk, know that fear alongside failure will walk alongside you. They do not have to lead the way.
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Keep watching!
For those of us who dream…pay attention to what sits inside yourself and watches you and is you…It may take time, but sit, smile, and watch.
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Keep words that echo louder!
If words echo, if they do so without losing their beat, rhythm, pulse, or wind, our eyes will close. This last day of summer, before kids return to school, I closed my eyes, and words echoed in my soul
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Keep all the ways you love, you hold, you let go…
These days we are doing three things: 1) loving what is human; a baby, a bird, this body resting plus any living creature that knows how to be free: 2) holding all the things we love against our bones knowing that this life depends on it: and finally 3) knowing for somethings, the time to…
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Keep being tough!
Some of us are resisting being fried and shaken, being seasoned and oiled, being consumed and destroyed, or being blown into nothingness. We would rather be tough in our essence, tough like kernels that never pop, such that if they eat us, they choke. Gail Chandler has a poem about being old maids like…
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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 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 a Pope that personifies Global Health or this call to serve!
Today everyone watched, stared, and maybe even smiled as we celebrated the sight of white smoke billowing from skies. The graceful angles and the answered prayers that followed ushered Pope Leo squarely into the spotlight. Who is he? Why him? And how might we know when his ways are our ways? Only time will tell…
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Keep knowing that global health is for all of us!
I write about global health. Write often about what makes it worthwhile. The people of course, the learning we do, the adaptations along the way and of course why we still nurture what matters for the field. Every where I go I tell people that I am a global health researcher passionate about sustaining evidence…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 