Category: The Journey
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Keep these words of freedom, words of hope!
Some words say the unspeakable, shape the drama and tenor of any moment until you are forced to become entangled by the powers within them. Some words create community, instill a sense of mission that keeps you rooted even if on a cross. These days, I’m in the mood for celebrating how words are freedom,…
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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 choosing joy
I am going to choose joy, deliberately choose it ways, delight in its turns, those that lead to distant places, then choose joy again. Our source of joy for today. Meet baby Jet…
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Keep the freedom of dreams!
There is a certain kind of freedom that dwells in people who dream. It’s the kind that knows no limits, fears no limit and is forever prepared to soar past any limit. Today, I learnt to be grateful for this freedom. See where people curse the despair that swells to the brim, those who dream…
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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 words!
If ever there was a time to be honest, to be truthful about how we feel today? I would begin with words…
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Keep this people lesson!
Here, people come together. Call it culture, call it a festival, but here, people come together, whether the wind blows or the the trees bend, whether the sun and its moon explodes or the stars refuse to twinkle at night, still here, people come together, whether it rains or snows, whether absolute or flawed, whether…
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Keep this amazing grace!
Today marked the end of an amazing journey. It was the end of a five year-term as a permanent member of an NIH review section. One that began exactly one week after I gave birth to my 4th baby. All of this in early months of the pandemic. This journey was amazing because I really don’t…
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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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Keep your impact!
Twice today, I found myself speechless. The first was from a woman named poem. A name given to her by her father. She shared how writing as I do here has been inspiring to her in a way that I didn’t even know. I was speechless and grateful that these words give many comfort in…
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Keep telling the truth
If and when you tell the truth, even if it hurts, only the telling matters. These days, I am seeing stories burst out of me that tell the truth from the bottom of my heart. There is no room for small talk, we are easily bored and we hate paying for things unnecessary like another…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 