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Keep the significance of grants like roots!
Read more: Keep the significance of grants like roots!There is a part of a grant, more poignant to me these days. It’s the part that keeps me up every night. The part that keeps me restless. The part often hidden. The part that anchors me. The part too that absorbs everything and transports me to new heights. The part worthy of digging. The…
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Keep notes to Angi’s cervix or cervical cancer!
Read more: Keep notes to Angi’s cervix or cervical cancer!In a little over a year, now, our life as we knew it came tumbling down. We called her Angie or Angi and to know her was to know life. I am reminded again, that death should never have the final say. Not when those alive can continue the story of a live well lived.…
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Keep knowing what you will keep or legacy!
Read more: Keep knowing what you will keep or legacy!The news of the Queens death came to me yesterday in the middle of work. I paused to immediately reflect on the number 70 and the age 25. Here was a woman who ruled her land for over 70 years, a land she inherited at the age of 25. Legacies are built this way, young…
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Keep a grant writing vice!
Read more: Keep a grant writing vice!My dreams keep dreaming. As if no ending is allowed. As if only poetry will do. As if all the alternating stress, those that pass unknown, those things light and heavy I embrace, everything they bring, like air, are worthy, profound, like breathing, this air of new dreams again. And so we hurry, back to…
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Keep celebrating work, like light!
Read more: Keep celebrating work, like light!I went to a gathering today, to see how people that worked like me, celebrated their highs and light, rejoiced in the success of others, and smiled because we worked. I left knowing, that work is work. But can be more, like light, when it is not hidden, when it is surrounded by people who…
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Keep writing grants in service to others!
Read more: Keep writing grants in service to others!My son drew a picture of himself at school today. He was dressed in a blue cape and black pants. I asked if he was inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog given similarities in the shade of blue. He shared that it wasn’t but rather it was a picture of him with a cape full of…
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Keep running in rain!
Read more: Keep running in rain!She said to me, Isioma, we have a problem. It’s been 15 months since these words were first uttered to me. I still remember them like yesterday. With all the pain those words caused, with all the anger and despair, we have been told only time will heal. Or trying running now and then. So…
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Keep going through your deepest darkness.
Read more: Keep going through your deepest darkness.I needed to go through hell once to understand my worth. Hell helped me find my vision for the next years and decades of my life. From time to time, attacks will come your way, and they are like an obligation, a desire for you to know struggle. In my hell, I kept coming back…
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Keep smiling!
Read more: Keep smiling!Toni Morrison and her son Slade Morrison have a book about mean people I love to read to my kids. It’s my keep for today. To them, people are mean. They frown, they shout, even whisper behind peoples back. Family members are also mean. Fathers, mothers, grandparents, siblings, all of us have mean tendencies that…
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Keep your struggles.
Read more: Keep your struggles.I am always mesmerized by an interview Chinua Achebe gave on NPR back in 1988. In it he told a story about a tortoise and a leopard. The leopard meets the tortoise on a lonely stretch of road. He had been trying to catch the tortoise for a long time. Tortoise, being a trickster, always…
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Keep flowers!
Read more: Keep flowers!I will know peace and joy, laughter and rain. I pray the roads are smooth, but if I find them rough, may all the peace I know, carry me through. Otherwise, bring flowers. Carnations or shady ladies will do.
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Keep the little things in mind!
Read more: Keep the little things in mind!My son attends a school that was severely damaged by the floods that came through Saint Louis in July. Their entire basement was gutted and all the rooms they use for their sensory activities were destroyed. We started school a week later than most and had to readjust everything with classrooms now in a different…
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