Tag: love
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Keep building in silence!
Sometimes it’s good to simply sit and see your magic for yourself, see to the future you hope for, then build in silence. This year will go down as one of my most silent year. We have built it, with a very small team, our team, our way, and we are proud. That’s all!
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Keep persistence!
Persistence is that thing you do, when doing nothing will do. It’s how you keep going even when not going will not do. It’s how you also never give up even when giving up will do. Persistence is a name you carry, the fortunate collateral of a woman who once carried it on her head…
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Keep knowing there is no failure in us!
I am learning that there is no failure in us, even if we are hurt, even if we are torn, there is no failure in us, death itself is a small stone, from the mountain we were born too, so no failure in us, not when we can put it in a pocket and carry…
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Keep the things we refuse like cancer!
They say all things dare, often disappear. But still we refuse to choose between death’s toll and death’s echo. The dead maybe dead our eyes are still sore. Deep pain remains. I but we refuse to dwell in death’s core. We also refuse to stop saying her name. The flame of her single name. We…
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Keep this journey!
Imagine being wonder, without willpower, going where you want. As you go, be grateful for whoever comes. Each has been sent as a guide from beyond so says Rumi…
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Keep your why!
When will you have a pity for every soft thing that walks through the world including yourself? These words by Mary Oliver forced me to begin this note that I didn’t want to write. Some things have walked through this life, through some chapters that left me saying it’s better for the heart to break…
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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…
