Tag: learning
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Keep the Nigerian youth in mind as leaders and partners!
I imagine young people can be partners, leaders too with health interventions. I imagine they can come up with strategies that matter for themselves and other young people. I imagine that if we give them an opportunity, not just as beneficiaries of health programs, that they will surprise you, wow you too. We have spent…
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Keep the sweetness of life!
I am basking in the words of Audre Lorde these days. In her short essay oh how she intended to live the rest of her life while battling liver cancer, she shared the following I will keep forever: ‘I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness…
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Keep Lagos!
To be born and raised, to remember and relive the sights and sounds, plus grey skies and dusty air. Then to inhale the sense and exhale the stupidity, to be reminded of why and when, plus why again, is to accept the sigh everyone knows so well. Lagos, Lagos. Seeing you, your place, the people,…
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Keep the gift of misery with grant writing
Grant writing is writing full of misery. Suffering, despair, anxiety, pain, torture, even hell. It has taken years to see that this too is a gift, not pleasure. But a gift. I am on a quest to understand the purpose of this misery and why it matters for writing your best grants. Not your most…
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Keep beginnings filled with failures!
Let them say, you did it your way. You failed and failed. You stood too and stood. You withstood all that fear had in store, down to the last syllable. Still, you weathered the storm. Danced through fire. Circled back to beginnings full of failures and pain. Still you worked. You rose up early and…
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Keep remembering Papa!
I remember these days, like a woman in labor, pain at the thought of pushing, but joy rattling all my being. Sounds pierceing through. Ah, the sound of life, unforgettable. Like you, Papa, my forever love. Rereading your letters. A blessing. Every single word in place. Near my heart. You will always remain. You are…
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Keep the sound of music!
Lives healed by the sound of music. And lives restored in the middle of meltdowns, are dancing to their own tunes now. Becoming too, in tune with all the noise, and sorrow, pulling us down, sign of the times and full moon, all the good news, for lives lived beyond these times. I am on…
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Keep the tenderness and love of sons!
Like mother, like son, the one we named after God, lives like his mother. Always talking, always questioning, if it doesn’t feel right, he will be the first to ask. If it comes to his minds, words will be out and free. Like mother, like son, the one we named after God, sees the world…
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Keep the heavenly sight of belladonna lily!
Wild flowers are everywhere. Like me, a woman, full, in bloom. Come soil or rock, I grow, oblivious to the softness or hardness of the other. Life knows me well. I am persistent with all the soil and rock I meet like a Bella Donna Lilly. I was greeted by these large lily like flowers…
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Keep peace!
There is a certain kind of peace I long for these days. The kind that lets me be. Free, with no demands. No strings attached, no noise, no worries too. Just a life lived well, my way, because peace flowed like a river.
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Keep first jobs!
The first job I got right after my undergraduate degree was an internship at the World Organization’s InfoBase. It was for 3 months and I was assigned to work under Dr. Kathleen Strong. My first assignment, look through online databases for the burden of stroke globally. Then enter all the risk factors you see into…
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Keep scars!
All my life, I have lived with a scar. Not a big one. Just one I rarely forget. We have lived together, all my life. Learning, though silent, the meaning of things, people, voices, ideas, I dare not forget. Those imprinted forever, still hopeful for too much hope. I have also been told different stories…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 