Tag: research
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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 this Bloom!
The air in the dark that fills me, shapes me, nurtures me, then refills me again, is the reason why we Bloom. Thank you Ms. Cummings and all of you that see me, see why writing in this manner matters. I cherish and love you all.
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Keep the love of global health!
I only have one question for the present state of affairs with global health: where is the love? How do we love, not just ourselves and our work, but those of others, even if means loving the enemy as they work to end all we love. So where is the love and how do you…
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Keep these moments with global health!
Some of us are stepping through the door full of curiosity for what this new phase of global health research will look like. Clearly it would feel like a helicopter landing in areas it shouldn’t be. We are waiting for answers, solutions, even rain to come and soothe the chaos about to unfold. When time…
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Keep knowing that even this too shall pass!
I spent the day saying this too shall pass, because this too shall pass and when this too passes, all that would be left is this. And it’s so worth it to keep this thing we know matters, for us, for our healing and for everyone. So even if we sound like a broken record,…
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Keep knowing your scars!
And what will you do today. My soul wondered out loud ever since we signed up to speak. And how will you celebrate the connections? Art and headwraps, you, motherhood, health and life. This is trivial, simple, we are all these things, and the connections are simple. No doubt today is here. There will be…
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Keep knowing their defeat is eminent.
When your existence is an accomplished fact, and your way of seeing things is the norm, then even if terminated, you are powerful and should still go forth staking your rightful claim as leaders of tomorrow even if today seems bleak. No need being a shadow of who you are. No falling into their trap of…
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Keep writing!
Some days will keep you numb, break your heart, make you to wish this trauma would end, all while still hoping for the best. The last two days, I have felt like a ship drowning. The water is rising and rising and we see it and see ourselves drowning. Trying to be hopeful is hard.…
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Keep serving!
The power hidden in serving, how it may make you look small, like a speck, as if feeble, like a candle, all of this, plus, limited time, like a river flowing away, are the reasons to serve. Plus even if you don’t see the river, even if it’s directions, whether up or down, left or…
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Keep the gift of sight!
While I started to write to celebrate a new found love for sight, the winds outside my window started to sing. Some of their tunes were loud, almost like the sound of a plane passing by, then some were slow, almost like a clock ticking by. So I closed my eyes and heard sounds that…
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Keep the art of grant writing!
I am giving myself permission to write grants that do not depend on anyone’s liking them, because what I want to do is write better. A grant writer does not always write in the ways others wish. The grant writer has to solve certain kinds of problems in writing. The way in which I handle…
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Keep these days!
Days have minds of their own. Some days I’ll sit and listen as children sing, play, fight, then sing again. Other days, I’ll watch as they live peacefully, teaching the power of love, with blankets draped around their bodies. These days even as we wear this shadow called life, I hope to always to watch,…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 