Tag: academia
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Keep dreaming still
If ever you felt the need to dream, my advice, dream. Do that thing that let your imagination roam free. Let it take you up to the skies above or down to the ground where leaves become one with earth. If ever you wanted to know why you cried at birth, dream. The ideas for…
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Keep the gift of life
These days, I’m aware that today is a gift. Tomorrow, a treasure. What I can do is visit, stay awhile, smile, eat good food, run, and maybe laugh with a mango gelato at hand. We have come for a moment. It may be forever or a day. Still, I’ll like to live as if tomorrow…
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Keep being rooted!
How do you make research unquestionably influential and at the same time beautiful or powerful? I’m learning and I saw examples today for example that stuck with three take home messages that resonated with me. First, you retain your message, then you retrain yourself to remember the message, then finally, do everything in your power…
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Keep moments where you begin again!
Yesterday I returned home after being away for a week. The past one month, I have been on a rollercoaster ride of my own doing, that slowly came to a halt yesterday in the middle of the Atlantic, somewhere on the journey from Amsterdam to Detroit. I took the time to reflect on what can…
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Keep captivating days
I am captivated by things simple like rainy days, moments gentle like kiss on your check from your child, memories eternal, like the rise after a rise, and days of delight, like pint of ice-cream with those you adore. If this 27th day, of the ninth month, of the year 2024 would be art, I…
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Keep seeing your smile!
I saw my smile the other day, saw how it made my eyes light up, saw how my lips became crooked, head tilted to the side, shoulders lean forward, all with an ease I could watch forever. So I started to see my smile more, see the way it burrowed deep within my soul, see…
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Keep moments that glow!
Some truths are joyful, some hidden, some hurtful, some useful. The pain from moments we inhale, blurt the joy of moments we exhale. Yet still, we inhale, truth bitter, moments hurtful, as life insists on being useful. There will be moments that come full of pain, full of rain, full of all the ways you…
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Keep these moments!
I write these days to celebrate life, to listen as water falls, to remember the power of hurdles, to love every struggle we meet. My middle son had a melt-down today. We rarely have them but when it happens, it is as fierce as it is hopeful and a reminder that every single moment of…
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Keep your name, and this harmony with your becoming!
There are three things with life I am learning help me stand. First, the idea of being human. Why are we here, now at this moment and for what do we hope for with the times we find ourselves in. The second is how will you endure. The battle is long, so what tools are…
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Keep this 4th anniversary, the one full of grace!
One of my favorite prayers begins with the word, “Hail Mary, full of grace.” If you know the next lines, for me, you would know that the lord has truly been with me. For who can go through fire, go through trials and somehow, get to the other side, oblivious to the fact that just…
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Keep all the ways we last!
she spoke harsh truths today about why things never last, not because many never try but because continuing to remain, against yesterday’s hopes and tomorrow’s reactive dreams can be futile in a setting where even darkness brims with glee. progress will be slow, acting too, but still, even with sweat and some blood, a little…
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Keep life still
If this is life, if this is the moment between our birth and our death, I hope you spend each moment loving those that let love win with a bouquet of carnations and baby breath. Otherwise try, try to inhale love, exhale everything else! Today happens to be one year when dreams began earnestly and…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 