Category: stories
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Keep spreading light!
Some minds bend like trees, only to create a path that lead to dreams. Those that tell all the moments we create. A new sun. A dazzling hill. Drums beating. Mountains trembling. Children singing. As we inherit the truth of our beginning. We who were born of mists and dream. Forever creating a space to…
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Keep dreaming!
Some truths are in full cycle now. Many will not understand, how light unravels itself. But the truth is ours. It has always been now that we see the fruits of our dreaming. See antelopes bend to drink from streams dreaming. See the sun follow us across the horizon lingering. See too how dreaming set…
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Keep the sighting of a Baobab tree!
Fifteen years ago, my feet stepped on a land nourished by Baobabs and it happened that when we stepped on it again, the sound of the passing wind, was still the Baobab, the tree built upside down, was the Baobab, the calabash full of fruits, was the Baobab, the long-lived tree with multiple uses, was…
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Keep telling the story!
Some of us will tell a story of the moments we returned so to tell the glory of how some of us did not die. We stood there and waited and listened and poured water back to the earth returning lives back to the earth, for their freedom is our freedom and our freedom is…
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Keep being a bright star!
We spent today discussing the approach section of a grant. It’s my least favorite section to write. One where I actually struggled to teach it. There are no right or wrong way to write an approach section. Every grant will be different I noted. The least you can do is anticipate the conflict inherent in…
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Keep reimagining cancer equity in Africa with stories and people that shape your life!
As a Ronald McNair scholar, our advisors at Penn stated noted we had to speak with researchers who were doing similar things we were interested in. Dr. Teresa Tassoti asked if I knew Dr. Collins Airhihenbuwa. I said no and she noted that I should go speak to him. The reason, like so many undergrads,…
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Keep chance meetings with Angelique Kidjo.
I love the lit corners of her melodies. They remind of why you can’t be hard to a hard world forever. You might as well dance like the sun through the morning mist. And meet life’s screams with your own thundering roars. If you can’t stop the rain, you might as well let it pour…
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Keep soaring like eagles
The turning point for me was the pandemic. I found myself wanting to know myself better. Work was intense. Family life too. Yet, both demanded more from me, even in the middle of a pandemic. So I did what I thought would save me: looking intently inside myself. It meant that I discovered many selves.…
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Keep, keep, your stories!
Some of us have been blessed or cursed to see beyond ourselves. Our only mercy is memory, but our regret is hell. Sometimes you don’t survive whole, sometimes you survive in parts. The key is the attempt and the surrender to memories that help you see beyond yourself. I am in a space where storytelling…
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Keep these moments of wonder!
I saw an old picture recently and I looked at the girl intently. She wore a pink shirt, loosely buttoned. Her hair in braids, seemingly old. She had a twinkle in her eyes, with lips curved up in a smile. And there was wonder and love, plus beauty and awe in eyes sparkling with excitement…
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Keep being open!
To see the door, at least once. Amidst fears of what could be. To see the door and debate whether to open or leave it close. Before the rustling winds that blow. Before trees fighting to be still. See those holding on to dreams. Choose to open the door. With the courage of a day…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 