Tag: creativity
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Keep this view of the world!
I read an article entitled “a very narrow view of the world” by Dr. Sandro Galea that made me ponder about my role working to study health. Over Easter dinner, I was asked what i did for work and the descriptions kept changing until my soul settled with the words, “I am in service to…
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Keep knowing all creativity is local, all healing is local too.
We stood there, my team and I, with a single purpose we stood. To say all creativity is local. All healing too. We spoke and spoke and spoke, until, suddenly, with clarity, the dreams became clear. A hundred day journey begins with a day. The leaves may rustle. Lizards may climb high. Through joy and…
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Keep knowing the path out of the pandemic is hopeless until we center the people in public health!
Langston Hughes has a poem of how a seed at the right time, produces flower, which goes on to become more than the seed ever imagined. Imagine if the path out of the pandemic was like a seed. Imagine how we will blossom when we become flowers. All because we took the time to first…
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Keep your seasons, keep your reasons!
I am in my own season, at last. With my own reasons, for me. They call this the age of reason, I laugh. This isn’t a silly season. I know. Just my own season, for me. With my own reasons, at last
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Keep creativity whether with life or death!
At the heart of our mystery as women is creativity. We literally give birth to new beings, new life. We finds ways to birth other things too, like writing for me lately or jewelry making, a reoccurring hobby of mine. To be able to make something, is to live life to the fullest, to live…
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Keep imagination and creativity, especially with children!
For art yesterday, my son’s homeschooling teacher noted that the destination was their imagination. She said they were free to draw whatever they liked, however they liked and proceeded to play Florence Price’s Juba Dance from her Symphony 1 to help spark the children’s imagination. For my son, the first thing that came to his…
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Keep embracing your creative confidence!
Do schools kill creativity? This question was the topic of a presentation by Sir Ken Robinson, an international advisor in education at a Ted Event in 2006. It has gotten over 19million views and counting. Homeschooling has showed me first hand how school killed my creativity. I used to love drawing and writing stories and…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 