Tag: academia
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Keep this heroic global health movement!
As a community, I write on behalf of us all. We don’t need any one story, any singular experience as the experience that personifies what global health means for all of us. Not when all experiences matter. In the words of Toni Morrison, what we need now is a heroic global health movement, one assertive,…
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Keep the freedom of dreams!
There is a certain kind of freedom that dwells in people who dream. It’s the kind that knows no limits, fears no limit and is forever prepared to soar past any limit. Today, I learnt to be grateful for this freedom. See where people curse the despair that swells to the brim, those who dream…
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Keep the power of your name)
And with you I dream. I do so in way like poetry. You make this life worth living.
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Keep your impact!
Twice today, I found myself speechless. The first was from a woman named poem. A name given to her by her father. She shared how writing as I do here has been inspiring to her in a way that I didn’t even know. I was speechless and grateful that these words give many comfort in…
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Keep telling the truth
If and when you tell the truth, even if it hurts, only the telling matters. These days, I am seeing stories burst out of me that tell the truth from the bottom of my heart. There is no room for small talk, we are easily bored and we hate paying for things unnecessary like another…
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Keep Good Friday!
Blood and water gushed from sides where man stood as God. If life ends today, I hope our sides are full of water, full of blood, full of things that bend with light.
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Keep this joyful (grantwriting) life!
If you abandon life and the world, you will find the life of the world. So says Rumi. This idea of surrender, the need to empty the glass of our desire, to know the joy of our souls, to stop looking for something out there and start with seeing from within is the reason why…
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Keep transforming!
Toni Morrison once shared that certain kinds of trauma visited on people are so deep, so cruel… that only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning that sharpens imagination. Tonight, I began a transformational journey that only time will tell the story of its outcome. Till then, keep this.
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Keep the love for boys little!
It’s another day, and we are among those lucky people who get to see this day and it’s rain and the birds that lurk around grasses, on their feet, like the a red cardinal bird that hurries from one grass to another, from one branch to another, such is the life of a mother, this…
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Keep still knowing the source of your scars!
My left pinky finger hides a scar the size of a grain of rice. I barely remember it exists. Sometimes it’s better to never remember pain, to always accept being invisible even when your mark is clearly visible. Between all the lines and groves in my hand, this scars stays hidden on the sides of…
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Keep knowing that even this too shall pass!
I spent the day saying this too shall pass, because this too shall pass and when this too passes, all that would be left is this. And it’s so worth it to keep this thing we know matters, for us, for our healing and for everyone. So even if we sound like a broken record,…
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Keep all your scars with ending cervical cancer!
I want to thank Angie for the vigor of her life. Everyday she lived, every moment she walked through the rims of this earth, even how she endured the end and continues to live, is the reason why I hold on to dreams, why I take ending cervical cancer so seriously. For many who came…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 