Tag: love
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Keep your dreams!
We build with what we have, with stone, some sand, a little bit of cloud and a lot full of dreams all pieced together. Super proud of her!
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Keep your light!
The essence of darkness is light and night, day and just as the sun comes up every morning, it will surely go down at night.
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Keep stories of all the ways you survive and sustain your light as you build sustainable systems for health!
How to survive, love, and sustain yourself as a black tenured professor in academic spaces.
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Keep centering sustainment!
I spent the day opening the doors to the source of my being in academic world. I cherish describing myself as a researcher passionate about how to sustain evidence based interventions or programs. I have also read and re-read literature on what this means for the field that sitting in a room full of brilliant…
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Keep love with sustaining anything!
It’s becoming truly clear these days that sustaining anything in a community setting is about integration. Of course it includes the different parts that make up an evidence-based intervention or program, but all these parts for communities limited with resources, need to be integrated into a whole that is greater than the sum of its…
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Keep you words!
I’m not shy about writing. This year has forced me to bare it all out. It has also taken me to depths and layers within me that I keep learning and unlearning just to relearn what it means to live life your way. See you will need to become comfortable with all systems you see.…
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Keep your depths!
And we shall delve deeply into the depths of our being, become like the moments before our birth. From the colors of earth, red and serene, to the waters of the river, flowing within. May our moments together be full of light, wild, polished but supreme light. May thick shades of peace, those that color…
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Keep what makes you smile!
When you meet a man walking bare feet with his cane and his parrot (who also spread their wings for me), you smile knowing this life will be alright…It will.
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Keep the people you see!
I went to a market and spoke to people. All sorts of people. All of them had one thing in common, a desire to be with people, to connect, to create, to even celebrate that which makes us whole. I went to a market and spoke to people but truly people spoke to my soul.
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Keep your parenting!
The real work of motherhood begins when the day you never dreamed off arrives. For me, it was this week. I have been holding on to my daughter being my first baby for so long that I secretly refused to see her as the teenager she was becoming. I have been in denial since I…

