Tag: learning
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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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Keep sleeping in peace until we meet again!
They say that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. With your family, you took the greatest step and we will forever be thankful that you were our first love. Continue to sleep well Papa until we meet again. Ps. These times of uneasiness are when you lean in to all…
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Keep this gift of light!
Light’s colorful tint, brightens everyday, reminding us to repeatedly fill our minds with light. Everything about these days make us live for these days, those days too when Papa first named us light. Keep it.
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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 moments of doubt with your dreams!
If you ever find yourself, unafraid of the coming storm, prepare then to thunder, waken up senses, burrow roots unshaken, even as life moves in disarray. Then take a deep breath, remember dreams, then begin, only this time, with more love and light deepening. I shared my dreams with four people today. All of them…
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Keep being polemical with your words!
A single word can lead the mind to traces of contemplation. They are like silences that take over, holding you uncomfortable for so long. Like fault lines and shifting plates that require you to invade the part of your brain where words are like air, forcing you to breathe in, breathe out. A couple of…
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Keep a full moon!
Surrounded by light, we, bend, break, then build, dreams, ours now, theirs tomorrow, we breathe in soft thoughts we breathe out blind spots of ebony souls in the middle of the night whose arch is as sublime as the brilliant moon.
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Keep going!
When I was thirteen or fourteen and didn’t know much about life, I thought people lived forever. Then I was young and never tired, always talked and always wondered, why good people died. The gift of death, like the gift of time, was unkind towards little girls that talked, little girls like me who knew…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 