Tag: public health
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Keep being STARS!
And so we begin. Welcome to STAR cohort 3 where to be a star, is to do work that Toni Morrison would say is beautiful, powerful, but should also work. It should have something in it that enlightens, something in it that opens doors and points the ways. Let’s Go STARS.
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Keep the art of a headwrap for mental wellness!
On Sunday February 2nd, as part of our commitment to building loving communities in Saint Louis for Saint Louis, our team held our first installation on the art of headwrap for mental wellness. Headwraps have always held a special place in my soul. My mother’s head is forever wrapped. Her mother’s head too. I remember…
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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 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 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 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 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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Keep this peace!
At a time like this, peace embraced me kindly, this was as my kid cried about nightmares and another fiddled with the headrest, another slept gently by that the pain that once dulled my head gave room to the soft feeling of peace nurtured by the one we gift back always.
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Keep lighting a path for the public’s health!
If and when the public takes their rightful place with health, if and when they do, and they are freed from all the bondage exclusively cultivated by those that purport to study them, love them maybe, I hope they are not ignored as those midnight that burn, otherwise what would be the purpose? A voice…
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Keep the day after snowstorms!
When your edges are sharpened, with joy or sorrow, with no time for doubt, words flow and your write, knowing you are orphans of today, of falling snow, of things deep and unspoken, of an endless journey for tomorrow, and even if darkness spreads around you, and even if you wait for the cold moon’s…
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Keep the snow and the sighting of an American robin!
Snow as it falls, scatters and gains possession of the earth, and trees hang up their branches, as an American robin appears, suddenly hungry, the air drips of fallen snow, like ant filing out a wood, only this isn’t wood, and though we are not American robins, they know those who do not befriend snow…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 