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Keep these beginnings!
These days I remember the way we begin. I also remember the way we die. When you have seen a life, seen it dissolve to the earth, then memories are like the air we breathe. Angie was her name. I say it in memory of her spirit, her voice, her love, her life. We are…
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Keep being a revolution or doing what Nikki Giovanni says!
Her words were power. I lived by them. The idea for example of living militant dreams of showing folks how things should be done is at the heart of why I write here every day. Part distraction, part invitation, all a reflection that my story will always be mine, always unfold in ways that are…
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Keep the thanksgiving lessons of a burning bush!
These days the comfort with cleverness of our times, whether with the speed of things instant, or the news of things social, all don’t ignite me. Rather, this morning, we begin again with grace, in thanks, with eyes burning like a bush endlessly brilliant, endlessly bright, for the warmness of these times, the love of…
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Keep dreaming still
If ever you felt the need to dream, my advice, dream. Do that thing that let your imagination roam free. Let it take you up to the skies above or down to the ground where leaves become one with earth. If ever you wanted to know why you cried at birth, dream. The ideas for…
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Keep following your path!
The insides of my thoughts, after a dizzying season of grant writing goes like this: what’s the next one? any other one? how about another one? surely there must be another one. We follow these thoughts down the path where ideas go to labor, we peek, we pry, we resolve instead to not sit and cry,…
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Keep captivating days
I am captivated by things simple like rainy days, moments gentle like kiss on your check from your child, memories eternal, like the rise after a rise, and days of delight, like pint of ice-cream with those you adore. If this 27th day, of the ninth month, of the year 2024 would be art, I…
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Keep hope!
We hope to rise with feet eager and life hopeful, to stand upon a hill and smile at a soul so full. If this is the brink of another day, may all we sow, all we gather, all we grew and all we planted, with our bare hands, help us to fix our eyes on…
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Keep moments that glow!
Some truths are joyful, some hidden, some hurtful, some useful. The pain from moments we inhale, blurt the joy of moments we exhale. Yet still, we inhale, truth bitter, moments hurtful, as life insists on being useful. There will be moments that come full of pain, full of rain, full of all the ways you…
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Keep this 4th anniversary, the one full of grace!
One of my favorite prayers begins with the word, “Hail Mary, full of grace.” If you know the next lines, for me, you would know that the lord has truly been with me. For who can go through fire, go through trials and somehow, get to the other side, oblivious to the fact that just…
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Keep life still and still!
however bright life is, however brilliant, however broken it maybe, however you bear it, we know she remembered the moment she stood at rivers edge, wondering what she would do differently, if this be yesterday, and she stood at the crossroads again, she would go with grace through the deep valley, knowing the sun shines…
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Keep 4 youth by youth (4yby) and its approach to innovative youth-driven research!
Research for me these days begins from a place of experience and deep thought, innovation too. Almost six years ago, I embarked on a research experience that changed my life. I was coming off a streak of research proposals that failed tremendously as grants and losing sight of what my sheer purpose in life and…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 