Tag: academia
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Keep being as ambitious as children!
I am understanding why children run bare feet on grass, why they prefer to climb trees every day. They know their legs and all it carries or climbs, belong to the earth.
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Keep knowing you are possible!
Picture this, you sitting in a room across from the ocean. Palm trees rustling in the wind not bothered by the ocean. The sea is flowing in a rhythm of its own. And so are you, sitting in a rhythm of your own and there is a note here, on the wall and you are…
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Keep being tough!
Some of us are resisting being fried and shaken, being seasoned and oiled, being consumed and destroyed, or being blown into nothingness. We would rather be tough in our essence, tough like kernels that never pop, such that if they eat us, they choke. Gail Chandler has a poem about being old maids like…
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Keep this grace!
I rather live in a world with more grace, more mercy, more love…We are all flawed beings. Only by grace we remain. My son and I started to plant Lillie’s this spring. It was our first time and I didn’t know to put the bulb in one space at a time. We ended up putting…
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Keep your name, Lotanna Belle and Happy Birthday!
To the brightest star we know, the one who forces us to put our hunger on pages, to a wisdom always growing, a patience personified, to all of you that is magical, deeper than any roots we know, to the one we named Belle, beautiful, in memory of our fathers, Happy Birthday. Wishing you so…
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Keep the messy magical start of your dreams!
At the messy magical start of your dreams, you will be long on ideas and short on time. Somethings will force you to change and change the dreams to save your soul. You will dwell in anything and nothing perfect and terrible. Of all the lives possible to you, the one you will choose is…
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Keep this love for grant writing!
Today, my team and I submitted three grants. This isn’t a praise post, but more so to encourage myself to keep rising to the things we love. Two of the three grants pushed me over the edge. One in particular, had me so down by the juggler that I would prefer simply to remain down.…
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Keep this trust!
The idea of an entire sea within, one always expanding, full of love too from within you, with grace and gratitude, is the reason we trust. Above all else we are putting our trust in God and reminding ourselves like our son’s name, Olisa ga dubem…
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Keep the 14th year anniversary of earning a doctoral degree!
Today marks 14 years since I got my PhD from Penn State University. When I look back at that experience, look back at the lessons learnt, one thing stands clear, that even if I loose everything today, I can rebuild from the ground up because of the people that helped to shape the story I…
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Keep the love of global health!
I only have one question for the present state of affairs with global health: where is the love? How do we love, not just ourselves and our work, but those of others, even if means loving the enemy as they work to end all we love. So where is the love and how do you…
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Keep life’s many thorns!
They say life will be full of thorns for those who do more than survive. I say if this is life, it is already thorny and not quite full and though this may feel like survival, at least we know the root for our thorns
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Keep global health!
I would rather study global health than any other field, yet all fields have their force worthy of reflections. Complex issues requiring multiple lens pulls me forward, bravely, to navigate, even if slowly, what can be done to address the complexity. Global health requires many endeavors with ample narratives that require us to turn the page…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 