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Keep a sense of urgency with public health!
Read more: Keep a sense of urgency with public health!There was a time when we had a sense of urgency in public health. When this urgency spread through all we did. We had a sense of urgency with our history. A sense of urgency for severe miseries. A sense of urgency with racism. A sense of urgency with poverty. A sense of urgency with…
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Keep knowing ‘the past is present’ with public health!
Read more: Keep knowing ‘the past is present’ with public health!In 1968, Dr. Morris Schaefer, a Professor and Head of Department of Public Health at UNC, Chapel Hill wrote a striking paper about the current issues in delivering better health services. He presented it at the 95th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association and many of what he shared then resonates with the…
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Keep struggle!
Read more: Keep struggle!In a 1987 interview with Chris Searle, Chinua Achebe shared why it took him nearly 15 years before he wrote his next novel ‘Anthills of the Savannah.’ It’s is one of my favorite of all his books for his critical stance on the significance of the story. The story, according to Achebe, is ‘our escort…
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Keep happy like children on Halloween!
Read more: Keep happy like children on Halloween!We started the day in church and ended it on a hayride across our village. We were covered in hay and my heart was full. This Halloween was fun and something I didn’t know my soul truly needed. For all the loss, for all the pain, for even all the heartache, it was simply glorious,…
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Keep listening to your fears!
Read more: Keep listening to your fears!If there is one thing my husband says all the time, is that I never listen. I myself proceed to turn it into a spirited discussion which ends up proving his point. The idea of listening is one I have struggled with for a long time. I never listen to my body when it pleads…
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Keep trunk or treats!
Read more: Keep trunk or treats!Halloween started today. My kids and I went to a trunk and treat at their school this evening. Dad and baby came along too. We went from one truck to the next admiring the decorations and taking all the candy we could find. Kids were all mesmerized. I was just happy to watch them thrive,…
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Keep going close to lions!
Read more: Keep going close to lions!Go close to lions, even if afraid, at least you’ll be close to lions. Reach above the stars, even if you fall, at least you’ll land on stars. Run fast with wild deers. Even if you loose, at least you ran with deers. Fly high with eagles, even if you tire, at least you flew…
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Keep moments of light!
Read more: Keep moments of light!Light slowly starts to seep in, during: Moments of intense smear, turned Moments of intense fear, which birth Moments of intense tear, that lead to Moments of intense here and now, of Moments of intense revere, that opened Moments of intense clear, for you, As your light slowly starts to seeps in. Keep these moments…
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Keep rising above stars.
Read more: Keep rising above stars.When I discovered Lucille Clifton, I discovered life above the stars. It’s was magical. She is magical. I am becoming magical too. As I rise above stars.
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Keep flying above your possibilities!
Read more: Keep flying above your possibilities!Let’s fly above our possibilities, Lucille Clifton once said to my spirit, to which I responded, not just my possibilities, but how about flying above our abilities. Above my ambitions. Above their admissions. Above any ammunitions. And above their assumptions. Then the spirit moved me and said you are onto something, keep flying above your…
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Keep becoming light!
Read more: Keep becoming light!Lucile Clifton once shared, how our lives are a circular stair. It keeps turning through time. To know why, we circle the world and back, one year after the other, is to know light. I am flooded by the brilliance of light. A majestic ray, that blooms, past the very speed of itself. The very…
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Keep asking questions!
Read more: Keep asking questions!Maybe we should have talked more often. I should have asked more questions too. Not just hello, or how are you or Ke maka Di gi, or Chekwube? But have you checked your cervix lately? When was the last time you checked? Did you collect the sample by your self? What did the results say?…
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