Tag: journey
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Keep thick love and the power of your grants!
That we have been engaging in a persistent struggle should be widely known. We have been riddled with struggles ever since we decided to mingle in the whispers of academic circles. The whole problem though seemed to be informed by two things. What we want, that is bigger than ourselves and what they want to…
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Keep nurturing what matters!
I imagine somethings can be bold and urgent. Yesterday I started to write about my grandmother’s death. It’s been 27 years and still if feels like it was yesterday. They say never let your knowledge of anything keep you from your nurturing of core things. So, that same yesterday, I sat and listened to dreams…
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Keep the sighting of a Baobab tree!
Fifteen years ago, my feet stepped on a land nourished by Baobabs and it happened that when we stepped on it again, the sound of the passing wind, was still the Baobab, the tree built upside down, was the Baobab, the calabash full of fruits, was the Baobab, the long-lived tree with multiple uses, was…
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Keep moving like the ocean…
And still we retrace our footsteps and follow the black rocks, the spiraling purple flowers, the rough and smooth pavement, the cracked cry of the ocean, all the way back to where dreams first began. Pride and joy swell our hearts. Initial love, we wish to keep. A peace, a deepening love through the rocks…
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Keep telling the story!
Some of us will tell a story of the moments we returned so to tell the glory of how some of us did not die. We stood there and waited and listened and poured water back to the earth returning lives back to the earth, for their freedom is our freedom and our freedom is…
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Keep a fruitful day!
They possess a look, a feel, a thing, that can only be described as joy. Those many may not know. Those hidden. Those few remember. Those we choose to keep. For day after day and of course on this most colorful day, they help us spread joy to all. Happy Halloween from my fruitful family…
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Keep being a bright star!
We spent today discussing the approach section of a grant. It’s my least favorite section to write. One where I actually struggled to teach it. There are no right or wrong way to write an approach section. Every grant will be different I noted. The least you can do is anticipate the conflict inherent in…
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Keep reimagining cancer equity in Africa with stories and people that shape your life!
As a Ronald McNair scholar, our advisors at Penn stated noted we had to speak with researchers who were doing similar things we were interested in. Dr. Teresa Tassoti asked if I knew Dr. Collins Airhihenbuwa. I said no and she noted that I should go speak to him. The reason, like so many undergrads,…
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Keep chance meetings with Angelique Kidjo.
I love the lit corners of her melodies. They remind of why you can’t be hard to a hard world forever. You might as well dance like the sun through the morning mist. And meet life’s screams with your own thundering roars. If you can’t stop the rain, you might as well let it pour…
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Keep soaring like eagles
The turning point for me was the pandemic. I found myself wanting to know myself better. Work was intense. Family life too. Yet, both demanded more from me, even in the middle of a pandemic. So I did what I thought would save me: looking intently inside myself. It meant that I discovered many selves.…
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Keep being radiant!
Some of us hide our voice under fear. In an unknown space where our dreams and our will are at war. We end up being in our own way. Things are not as easy as they seem. So we hide our thoughts under fear. Until we proceed towards ourselves. For who wants a life of…
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Keep these experiences!
I lay my head, and let the sound of nothing flow into my ear. But the sound of children crying, my head now exploding, as nothing describes, how these soft foundations, these complexities of sound, these words flowing from my head, in a way, order, clear, the chaos, the cavity, clouding my chambers. Some days…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 