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Keep your name!
If you ask, I’ll say freedom, dreams, failure, perseverance, love, community, are the reasons why I do it, give names to the vision, my papa and Onyelo, plus mama, saw when they first named me, framed me, for things good.
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Keep eyes open!
We are taking the best dreams, and the best ideas, and a girl whose mama’s name is Onyelo to open eyes and her grandma who knew Onyelo to tender carefully this little light of hers and here she comes, isioma, an Onicha-ugbo treasure, Celestine’s Obi and may the art in the love that framed you,…
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Keep these STARS who know there are no rules!
These days we see all rules can be broken. Institutions broken. Though we wondered how they would apply the rules, we watched as they applied the rules. Our STARS came brilliant, bright, knowing these are different times, uncertain ones, but their time. We left fully bright, in awe of their brilliance. These may be uncertain…
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Keep being STARS!
And so we begin. Welcome to STAR cohort 3 where to be a star, is to do work that Toni Morrison would say is beautiful, powerful, but should also work. It should have something in it that enlightens, something in it that opens doors and points the ways. Let’s Go STARS.
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Keep the art of a headwrap for mental wellness!
On Sunday February 2nd, as part of our commitment to building loving communities in Saint Louis for Saint Louis, our team held our first installation on the art of headwrap for mental wellness. Headwraps have always held a special place in my soul. My mother’s head is forever wrapped. Her mother’s head too. I remember…
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Keep living for grace unfiltered!
These days, whenever anyone asks how we are coping, I say with joy, with grace, with fortitude, with light. I share that those who know they belong to a higher power, can never cower when trouble comes. This is how they begin, in the middle of chaos. They know to get their wings ready, know…
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Keep looking up!
If I had the right words, the right tone, the right answers, or the right feelings about the past week, it would seem as if things were indeed right. Nothing about these times we find ourselves in is right. More and more, are understanding that this isn’t a sprint and elections have consequences. Yet there…
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Keep things slow!
We wondered whether the colors that pass through the skies, some blue, some white, and some grey on occasion are the songs hearts that know grace sing. If so, we are singing and the skies are blazing at the sight of the evening sun, at the thought of things being slow…
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Keep naming your dreams!
In the middle of the chaos that was unfolding in the country yesterday, my team and I submitted a grant called Dreams. We had two choices. We could either go down the rabbit hole of what was unfolding yesterday or we could dream, stellar dreams of building communities that matter. We choose to build communities…
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Keep joy even in these moments!
We are being mandated to worship despair, being asked to choose chaos, being told confusion matters, all the while our healing and wellness declines. As a public health researcher passionate about healing my community and all those that love, love, I ask you to remember that choosing despair now, more than ever is pointless. It…
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Keep each day!
Night ends and though this day won’t happen again, we know where we stand, and see the light that shines, and the way we opened and reopened our heart, the way we knew the call was his for his sake, the way these words flow like a lake, is the reason why a day should…
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Keep the possibilities of dreams
If you ever find yourself spending days in glorious celebration of a cause, those that birthed dreams, even if the tip of your head, or the warmth of your soul, basks in moments full of grace, I hope they fill you still with memories full of possibilities.
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 