Category: stories
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Keep this love, even as we eliminate cervical cancer!
What we wanted seemed little enough at that time. There was something there, making it hard to eat. She was seeing a doctor. They will take a piece of something, and promised everything will be okay. Hours turned to days and days turned into more days. When we finally spoke, she shared what we had…
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Keep the public’s health.
The same scene has been repeated many times. We say we want something better for our collective public health, but give into tyranny to prove a point. Some many now wonder what could be done. Honestly nothing. Many of us are tired and sick and tired of being tired. Nothing at this point can sort…
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Keep stumbling dreams
Some dreams stumble, seeing nothing, not even the horizon until it meets vision and together they merge. Dreams are eyes that see stumble, see nothing, see horizons, see vision, even on a blunt path, they open and enter.
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Keep dreaming still
If ever you felt the need to dream, my advice, dream. Do that thing that let your imagination roam free. Let it take you up to the skies above or down to the ground where leaves become one with earth. If ever you wanted to know why you cried at birth, dream. The ideas for…
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Keep the gift of life
These days, I’m aware that today is a gift. Tomorrow, a treasure. What I can do is visit, stay awhile, smile, eat good food, run, and maybe laugh with a mango gelato at hand. We have come for a moment. It may be forever or a day. Still, I’ll like to live as if tomorrow…
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Keep being rooted!
How do you make research unquestionably influential and at the same time beautiful or powerful? I’m learning and I saw examples today for example that stuck with three take home messages that resonated with me. First, you retain your message, then you retrain yourself to remember the message, then finally, do everything in your power…
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Keep boldly facing death!
Nearly half of our lives are gone. Most of all we will do have been done. There may be new dreams, new deeds, new actions, many inactions, but most of what we would call life is close to being done. So what remains. They realization that we can’t be troubled. The end is death. It’s…
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Keep dreaming again!
If by chance you come across a dream so old, so hidden, it’s invisible even to you who once dreamed this dream, don’t flee, dream again. See that dream in your eyes again, follow the direction of its scent, retrace your footsteps back to the place where your dreams first began, until you begin to…
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Keep knowing your dreams are valid, visible, your dreams!
If I have never dreamed, saw others dream, leaned against the wall knowing dreams are hard, always distant, like a thing for others, those they call experts, with many degrees after their names, few like mine, my dreams like yours, always distant and denied, always denied despite how many times we tried. If I have…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 