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Keep the life lessons of death!
Read more: Keep the life lessons of death!On this Juneteenth day, we saw death today. Seeing the last drops of life, the grave closing in, kept us thinking about this journey through life. Will we reach the end with pride, whisper sweet nothings in the end. However you chose to go: so long Jackie. From your last thoughts to your last words.…
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Keep Father’s Day.
Read more: Keep Father’s Day.The thing about grace is that every time I remember our beginning, I remember angel, Muomamm. The names we gave to each other continues to lead our journey together. That angels will guide and protect us, those for whom he called his own. As complicated and intense saving lives maybe, as transformative, as insightful, as…
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Keep being stars!
Read more: Keep being stars!Tell them we stood like stars and dazzled and dazzled like stars within. But we never forget, and we keep the memories of a time something tried to dim our light. Yet still like stars, we dazzled. Right at the beginning of setting up one of my most significant research programs, an individual I entrusted…
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Keep young people close!
Read more: Keep young people close!A little over four years ago, a developer, my team and I were working with disappeared. We searched everywhere for him and couldn’t find me. He was young and many people told us to move on, that young people are never reliable. We knew it was unlike him but his disappearance shattered us too. We…
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Keep knowing Olisa don co-sign me!
Read more: Keep knowing Olisa don co-sign me!I spent the evening working out. These words kept me going. The fact that Olisa don co-sign me for one. Then if you want to lose, bet against me. Not my words, but I am embracing it this season of my life. That and as you no dey for me, I carry my cross go…
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Keep grants as survival
Read more: Keep grants as survivalImagine being on the shoreline, crucial and alone. Imagine doing so to open a world rigidly closed. Imagine instigating unlearning, as you stimulate learning with words turned radical in the practice for freedom. The past one year I have been on a journey that I never could have imagined for myself. Two years ago, I…
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Keep grants as poetry!
Read more: Keep grants as poetry!Sometimes grants come to me as poetry. Often disconnected from reality, I am learning they enable me to be persistent with reality. The tools for grant-writing belong to masters whose noose can be tight around your neck if you don’t understand their intent. I do. So, sometimes, grants come to me a poetry. For hidden…
















