Tag: public health
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Keep community!
I sat through a meeting earlier this week where we discussed all the ways to engage with communities. A friend of mine shared the same thing too about how she attended a meeting with folks trying to figure out just what community engagement entails. Both communities were academic and both had minimal input from folks…
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Keep the lessons of Good Friday!
I have gathered my pain, the abundance of it all, into an old rugged cross, my father, my grandmother, my uncles, my aunties, my nephew, my jobs, my innocence, my loss, plus Angie, all have come together, like a wreath, with the endless abundance on a cross, all hailing the depths of the pain, where…
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Keep this peace!
Today I will write the most low esteem lines ever spoken. Write for example, ‘I am confident and not my fault you mistake my confidence for something else.’ The winds will blow and eventually a day will force me to rewrite the lines as this. “No one who knows they are confident speaks loud. The…
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Keep dreams heavy.
That time I thought tough times last, I went closer to the edge without falling over. Surely God had a hand in this as well as Papa and mama Ocha and of course the one named Onyelo. So, I stood and my stance as the one with the golden hair said, is like no other.…
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Keep wisdom following storms!
At the end of the storm, you will wonder whether to cry or simply sigh. You will wonder what remains. The proof of wisdom after all is the desire to learn. And your chi would say you, always you, for no one who lives by the river will ever wash their hands with sand. So…
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Keep the freedom of dreams!
The invisibility of those free are odd and beautiful. They bear the same relation to dreams, pointing the way up. Only few wake up to the hidden potentials of dreams. Only those free. The power of making. The power of affecting reality is powerful to those who dream. Those who shape the future with their…
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Keep this freedom
Some seasons bring gifts that glow beyond darkness, underneath skies that announce the arrival of thunders, the fall of rain. I am in a season, flooded with poetry, destined to humanize all life’s experience. To be radical they say is to begin at the root. It takes time to tear down people and systems not…
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Keep knowing all creativity is local, all healing is local too.
We stood there, my team and I, with a single purpose we stood. To say all creativity is local. All healing too. We spoke and spoke and spoke, until, suddenly, with clarity, the dreams became clear. A hundred day journey begins with a day. The leaves may rustle. Lizards may climb high. Through joy and…
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Keep what is local!
All creativity is local. I am seeing that with each passing day. All creativity as far as the eyes can see, is local. We bought a bag of Africa Star Apples today. Udara as it’s fondly called and I gladly ate the whole bag proudly as all fruits are local. What if we did the…
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Keep Peace!
I remember the name. My eyes were drawn to the colors. A white bird draped in blue with a round circle with a blue hole perched on its wings. I remember the name, Peace. They say it stood for peace. The bird seemed to sing with ease. The skies looked on with glee. Believing in…
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Keep love!
Love springs from somethings. Sometimes a whisper, a warm embrace, a simple card, all can pull a heart and make it leap. The idea of a day dedicated to love has always kept me alive. Partly because I remember how love came to be for me. I remember its first touch, its first kiss, its…
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Keep living beyond yourself!
I finally shared the courage award to the one who gave birth to Angie the other day. At first I was apprehensive. What would she say? Would she even approve? It’s her daughter after all and what right do I have to tell her story my way. To my surprise she cried. She kept thanking…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 