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Supremacy

Not winning. Arriving. The slow rising into your truer, wiser, more grounded self — the one you were always growing toward, even on the days you couldn’t feel it. And then, gently, the line carries you back toward the next storm. We keep becoming.

Latest Supremacy

  • Keep Choosing Yourself: A Daily Practice of Knowing You Are Enough

    Keep Choosing Yourself: A Daily Practice of Knowing You Are Enough

    You are enough – not someday, now. A daily practice for choosing yourself, keeping your voice, and living free. Start with Keep One Day, free.

  • Keep the Attempt: Lessons from Rejection and Gratitude

    Keep the Attempt: Lessons from Rejection and Gratitude

    Before 90+ grants, my first rejection came on the floor of Henri Mendel. What attempt, waiting, and lessons from rejection teach us about gratitude-and what to keep.

  • Keep One Open Door: The Courage to Begin Again.

    Keep One Open Door: The Courage to Begin Again.

    How do you find the courage to begin again when fear says keep the door closed? Juliet Iwelunmor on beginning again, one small true thing at a time. Start with Keep One

  • Keep gathering by moonlights even in academia!

    Keep gathering by moonlights even in academia!

    Academia should be about doing the work, not just checking a box. True connections happen when we gather over shared passions and aspirations.

  • Keep all your invisible inks!

    The images you have of me. Mother, researcher, doing work in far away places. All of them are true. But those that are invisible. Everything hidden, under, and in between the lines like Toni Morrison’s invisible ink, are the bones that keep me tall and erect. One day, I will leave you hoping to see…

  • Keep the storms and pain, they teach how to be creative!

    Looking back, it was good that I went through pain, good that storms came my way. They both taught me how to stand. So now, I consider myself fortunate when all sorts of storms come my way. I say a silent prayer in thanks, as they remind me that God is still using all of…

  • Keep this meaning of life!

    For the freedom of your dreams, future joys and open eyes, live. Through ways silent and wise, the seed of your spirit and undiscovered roads, learn. When things happen and everything changes, pray. Through time and life, through the best and worst in souls, love. The above are from Ben Okri. My mood for this…

  • Keep the common dreams of a dreamer!

    Keep the common dreams of a dreamer!

    In moments of stress, or moments of strife, through periods of chaos, or periods of change, when life becomes unpredictable, days and nights too, unpredictable, when the voices and the places that once nurtured you, turn on you, whether storms erupt or your strong purpose erodes, no matter whether your candle burns it self out…

  • Keep the beginning!

    Keep the beginning!

    It was simple to begin. Hard to continue. Even harder to not give up as we suffered. Wanting more for this life, wanting it for others, silent and alone. But the simple beginning, all that it laid bare, is why we celebrate the end, even in silence, knowing we are not alone. We choose to…

  • Keep this meaning of life!

    For the freedom of your dreams, future joys and open eyes, live. Through ways silent and wise, the seed of your spirit and undiscovered roads, learn. When things happen and everything changes, pray. Through time and life, through the best and worst in souls, love. The above are from Ben Okri. My mood for this…

  • Keep being green!

    Keep being green!

    Dead trees don’t produce fruits, but some fruits on dead trees, stay green.  My kids and I walked by branches from a tree dead. My daughter noted that dead trees often do not produce fruits, yet these branches were full of fruits still green. It got me wondering, how are we staying green in a…

  • Keep connecting to your desires!

    Keep connecting to your desires!

    I was asked yesterday to describe soulful grants. My mind went straight to my heart. Of what use is a grant if it only knows the head, forgetting that the longest journey you will ever take is the one from your head to your heart. So my response: Grant writing is a way of connecting…