Tag: grantwriting
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Keep dream, like flowers, like grants that begin again!
We are writing grants again. We began on Monday to prep for what maybe the start of a journey toward returning home. For the past 15 years all my grants have been global, focused on my birth country Nigeria. Lately, and because home is really Saint Louis, really the US, as I have spent most…
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Keep creativity with healing!
They say the main function of anyone who writes or performs art is, to imagine a different world, to do so in awe of the possibilities of what can happen when we begin with our imagination. I was in a room this evening where panelists spoke of imaginations and dreams and what it can do…
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Keep knowing your worth!
It’s been 7 months of working in a new and supportive space and the key lessons from my 3 month mark remain the same: 1) Know your worth; 2) Dream about your worth even if for yourself alone: 3) Speak eloquently and proudly about your worth; 4) Leave any space and people who do not…
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Keep this gratitude for the first ever megadesignathon multi-disease health campaign!
This is the way I would like to dream, with a team as tall as evergreen palm trees. A community as deep as any stream of water. I’d like to dream while the day is young, the skies are clear and our feet are planted as we dance near streams of water. They say gratitude…
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Keep dreams heavy.
That time I thought tough times last, I went closer to the edge without falling over. Surely God had a hand in this as well as Papa and mama Ocha and of course the one named Onyelo. So, I stood and my stance as the one with the golden hair said, is like no other.…
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Keep being present!
There is this believe that all stories are true. Some have magic to their name and can do wonders to transport you from this realm to another. There are some stories portrayed as the best. We are assured in the praise songs that they are indeed the best. They can open up worlds from which…
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Keep being like ether with the stories you write!
Some omens are loud. So bear with me in these hours of silence. They have hidden notes wrapped up in hidden stories that turn hearts to stone. Our hearts are full of stone. They look too like dancers dis-inherited in the middle of a dance, hanging with their lame foot in the air, like a…
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Keep writing!
I started this year saying I would write. First for me and next for anyone out there. The truth. Writing is hard. You need a muse, a context, is it fiction, non fiction, something has to keep you going. It’s been 20 days of writing and let’s just say I finally have my muse. Thank…
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Keep how to free somebody else!
When you are free? When you have seen the deepest valleys and somehow you walked through to the light. When your cup starts to overflow in the sight of your enemies. When they return too like as if you were Joseph and Joseph was you. When you have know how not to be afraid when…
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Keep imagining them oooh….
Imagine being among creatures of vanity. Imagine wondering what do they even know. Imagine their blindness to a single blazing star, even though they belong to a pleading sky. Now imagine how they must the feel, the exhilaration of a cup that overflows, of moments they see reaching high to the bare cliff edge. For…
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Keep scarves…
I was born with a scarf on my head. My shoulders too. Like my mother and her mother too. We were born wearing scarves, handwoven with threads, or hand-dyed with care, silent and golden. A generation of pride crowned the top of our heads with every scarf. I have worn scarves older than the day…
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Keep knowing that power is female!
We started this year in an inescapable cycle of suffering. We were also exhausted. Until we decided to claim some power over everything. We started to asked ourselves questions like what periods of growth have we wasted? What moments of gradual growth? Those that came unexpected and wild. Those unnamed and mild. Or what moments…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 