Tag: grantwriting
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Keep the delight of failures!
To my failures, those recent and those over a decade ago, those big and small, all of you bold yet with no hope, know that you are my delight, my highest degree of satisfaction, my pleasure, to all the ways you make me feel content, to all the struggles and joy you bring, to all…
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Keep grants for self-recovery!
bell hooks in Sisters of the yam, talked about the need for black women to engage in self-recovery. She was writing from the space of the continued devaluation of black womanhood, the extreme difficulties that make it hard for us to even develop a positive outlook of ourselves. Not only are we pitted against each…
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Keep the idea of delegating however hard with your grants!
I had a meeting yesterday with a dear friend that was checking into my grant submission goals for the year. They are of course a lot and insane and we are so ready to dream. One thing she noted was that I needed to delegate. I said if you have been burned like me, like…
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Keep being grass!
If you find me at the brink of giving up, at the point of forgetting love, at a basement with no light, at dawn with no song, at a gathering with no tears, at the edge with no words, at a Red Sea with no faith at a desert with no thirst at a devotion…
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Keep the cycle of grant writers!
I’m always in a circle. Always beginning just when I thought I was finished. The function, the very true function of an artist is to dance to a different beat. So goes a grant writer. We write grants because we are always drumming a new tune differently. Grants invariable rebel against what is norm. If…
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Keep following your path!
The insides of my thoughts, after a dizzying season of grant writing goes like this: what’s the next one? any other one? how about another one? surely there must be another one. We follow these thoughts down the path where ideas go to labor, we peek, we pry, we resolve instead to not sit and cry,…
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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 Onyeka, the latest NIH pre-doctoral scholar at WashU!
Nearly 15 years after becoming an NIH predoctoral scholar, it brings me great joy to pass the baton to my doctoral student, Onyekachukwu Anikamadu, MPH, CPH, the latest NIH predoctoral scholar in town. What is mentoring? To me these days is ensuring that those entrusted to your care get to live out their dreams their…
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Keep 4 youth by youth (4yby) and its approach to innovative youth-driven research!
Research for me these days begins from a place of experience and deep thought, innovation too. Almost six years ago, I embarked on a research experience that changed my life. I was coming off a streak of research proposals that failed tremendously as grants and losing sight of what my sheer purpose in life and…
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Keep writing grants like the high point of life or dreams!
We begin again, only this time with a new team. Held a grant-writing workshop that lasted for 5-days last May. It was a first of its kind where only writing each day was allowed. Five of us made an attempt to write. We did and ended up with a single page. Crossed the box of…
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Keep blessing the boats or what I call Onyelo!
I see the tide clearly. I know the edge of understanding too. Both have carried me out, beyond fear, through right paths and in a darkness so deep. We have been kissed, like a morning star and the wind has turned. We find ourselves near pools of fresh water. We are certain that water loves…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 