Tag: love
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Keep the storms and pain, they teach how to be creative!
Looking back, it was good that I went through pain, good that storms came my way. They both taught me how to stand. So now, I consider myself fortunate when all sorts of storms come my way. I say a silent prayer in thanks, as they remind me that God is still using all of…
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Keep the story of you two together!
Two people together is a miracle. I am seeing that everyday. You don’t only thrive in the ups, the downs build you. There will be moments when you are writing the story, telling it from one side, your side, when the other side, with all its twists and turns, pushes forth a narrative of its…
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Keep this bliss!
As the bliss ends with some good friends, we are reminded that the sea is to be respected, every child is a sacred trust, live while you still breath, then make any day your way, whether a rude boy on the market, or standing next to mahogany trees, everything whispers here, the air, the rain,…
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Keep knowing you are possible!
Picture this, you sitting in a room across from the ocean. Palm trees rustling in the wind not bothered by the ocean. The sea is flowing in a rhythm of its own. And so are you, sitting in a rhythm of your own and there is a note here, on the wall and you are…
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Keep this season of love!
The wind kisses your face, the ocean and its winds adore you too. If ever I was asked to describe a moment of bliss, what it felt like or what did I feel in that moment, I would say joy, for nothing else can describe what it feels like to be loved by the ocean,…
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Keep all your stories!
My dear dad once told me to focus on school, just do all that mattered with school, then my life partner would arrive. I listened. Cut my hair and dove straight into what being a doctoral student was all about, bald head and all with jewelry making on the side. Then my dad died and…
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Keep all your failures!
Consider yourself lucky if only unheard sounds joined to stop your flow through air. They call it failure, defeat, disappointment, even how your deficiency stopped you short from a priceless victory. What holds, what binds you still isn’t the failure bearing down your broken bones. Rather all of them, the bones, the air, the unheard…
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Keep this love for grant writing!
Today, my team and I submitted three grants. This isn’t a praise post, but more so to encourage myself to keep rising to the things we love. Two of the three grants pushed me over the edge. One in particular, had me so down by the juggler that I would prefer simply to remain down.…
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Keep the WashU LIGHT public health summer camp for children 3-8th grade!
If I was to linger for a little while, about a day, I would choose today, choose this very important day, where teachers taught and we listened and children taught and we listened and it’s as if both were necessary, teachers and children teaching, and listening, and perhaps we can have more trustworthy public within…
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Keep these lessons of falling leaves!
Even if leaves descend, even if they descend brittle and frail to the ground below, even if they are swept away by wind or birds, leaving trees and branches empty and alone, at least they fell, they moved down before going up and away, and we are here, forgetting the lessons begin first on the…
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Keep this necessary suffering!
We often stay on a path that we are already on, even if it’s going nowhere. I’m learning these days that life is full of necessary suffering, full of losses and renewal, full of a downward part to growth and imperfection. For everything you have, always be prepared and plan to lose it, so that…
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Keep these notes!
Her final notations of a life not simple, life not long, life not little, but a life full of thought, life full of heart, life full of air, is that life will still be short, it will still not be simple, and you will endure. A reminder: You can’t gatekeep global health from women who…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 