Tag: grantwriting
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Keep knowing there is no failure in us!
I am learning that there is no failure in us, even if we are hurt, even if we are torn, there is no failure in us, death itself is a small stone, from the mountain we were born too, so no failure in us, not when we can put it in a pocket and carry…
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Keep beginning again!
There is something sweet about beginning again, like a mysterious birth whose purpose is to reveal. The way things emerge in the beginning, ideas come into being, as if they have always been there, how they leap from your soul too and become their own is the reason why I would always begin again. Always…
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Keep the common dreams of a dreamer!
In moments of stress, or moments of strife, through periods of chaos, or periods of change, when life becomes unpredictable, days and nights too, unpredictable, when the voices and the places that once nurtured you, turn on you, whether storms erupt or your strong purpose erodes, no matter whether your candle burns it self out…
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Keep all your failures!
Failure, don’t talk to me about failure or what I am capable of. When I wanted jewels for health, I wanted jewels for health. I trained girls, one school at a time, and took jewels to them to end the HIV epidemic and we failed without warning, without wining and without any wind blowing our…
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Keep being green!
Dead trees don’t produce fruits, but some fruits on dead trees, stay green. My kids and I walked by branches from a tree dead. My daughter noted that dead trees often do not produce fruits, yet these branches were full of fruits still green. It got me wondering, how are we staying green in a…
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Keep soulful moment
Some moments require you to not be a stranger to your soul, to live each day like it’s your first, to save yourself no matter the cost, and look at the sky every night even if for a minute.
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Keep connecting to your desires!
I was asked yesterday to describe soulful grants. My mind went straight to my heart. Of what use is a grant if it only knows the head, forgetting that the longest journey you will ever take is the one from your head to your heart. So my response: Grant writing is a way of connecting…
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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 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 these devotions!
In the midst of another tornado, we spotted a rainbow. The rain was heavy, so was the day. Another tornado. The 4th one in a row. Clearly these days are not playing by the rules. Clearly tornadoes are rewriting the rules. Clearly, we are glad to be alive. Clearly glad to be breathing even if…
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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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