Tag: children
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Keep stories about grief and love for children through books like Bloom!
Before the end of today, about 1,200 children in the U.S. will lose their parents. This translates to about 432,000 children annually. By the time most children turn 18, at least 1 in 13 of them would have lost a parent. My first death experience was as a teen through the loss of grandmother and…
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Keep Mother’s Day!
If you ask me which blessings are wild, I may speak of the day I smiled next to a lion, moments where my walk was straight and confident, the day we held hands in the sight of many stands tall, so too the moment we laid eyes on a country life. Something’s have forced me…
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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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Keep this people lesson!
Here, people come together. Call it culture, call it a festival, but here, people come together, whether the wind blows or the the trees bend, whether the sun and its moon explodes or the stars refuse to twinkle at night, still here, people come together, whether it rains or snows, whether absolute or flawed, whether…
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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 Easter!
The enormity of rain, with all its drops, that thrust from the skies above to the earth below, is that it empties itself out, Iike words written as if from the core of an empty tomb. Only the tomb is not empty and we have memorized how to rise from the dead and these words…
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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 your gifts from God or Happy Birthday Chiwetel!
Some children can be smooth, full of ease, while others can be rough, with little peace. Some can give gifts others withhold, rising and setting like the sun on any day. Others teach you nothing but silence and prayers plus rest for the night. You give us all this and more, with our hearts understanding…
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Keep the generation who choose hope!
There is a generation whose morals may cause fear to creep in. When you see them dragging themselves into a mud of darkness, when you see them slide over snakes as if they are one, when you see them loop around together in an image that only tells the story of themselves. Don’t worry for…
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Keep the universe and Steven Weitzman in mind!
There we were, standing in front of Fredrick Douglass. He stood majestic in bronze. We were stunned by his hair, his facial structure, his arm grip, his legs, his whole being. I wondered out loud who could have made these and for how long and with what materials. The universe heard me and said, look,…
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Keep this love…
If in the end, only one memory remains, I hope it helps you remember the moment where you loved like a star.
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 