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Keep the shining sun after a tornado!
Our friends saw a tree outside their home. It’s was after the tornado that passed through St. Louis, and for them, it left no power, broken lights, and a large tree on the ground. They are okay they said. At least the sun is still shining. I agree. My heart goes out to everyone who…
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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 life’s many thorns!
They say life will be full of thorns for those who do more than survive. I say if this is life, it is already thorny and not quite full and though this may feel like survival, at least we know the root for our thorns
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Keep a Pope that personifies Global Health or this call to serve!
Today everyone watched, stared, and maybe even smiled as we celebrated the sight of white smoke billowing from skies. The graceful angles and the answered prayers that followed ushered Pope Leo squarely into the spotlight. Who is he? Why him? And how might we know when his ways are our ways? Only time will tell…
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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 global health!
I would rather study global health than any other field, yet all fields have their force worthy of reflections. Complex issues requiring multiple lens pulls me forward, bravely, to navigate, even if slowly, what can be done to address the complexity. Global health requires many endeavors with ample narratives that require us to turn the page…
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Keep these words of freedom, words of hope!
Some words say the unspeakable, shape the drama and tenor of any moment until you are forced to become entangled by the powers within them. Some words create community, instill a sense of mission that keeps you rooted even if on a cross. These days, I’m in the mood for celebrating how words are freedom,…
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Keep choosing joy
I am going to choose joy, deliberately choose it ways, delight in its turns, those that lead to distant places, then choose joy again. Our source of joy for today. Meet baby Jet…
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Keep this vigil
Nothing stops the agony, ends the worry, understands the hurry, that, surpasses the glory, and sustains the story, of the time the son of God, rose from the dead. Nothing
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Keep astonishing with your light!
Perhaps we do not want to be remembered. Perhaps we do not want to be praised either. Perhaps we desire no fame. Perhaps we choose instead to live quietly. Perhaps we prefer no one knew we existed. Perhaps we choose instead to serve the highest forces in the universe. Perhaps we choose to be unseen.…
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Keep your gifts from God or Happy Birthday Chiwetel!
Some children can be smooth, full of ease, while others can be rough, with little peace. Some can give gifts others withhold, rising and setting like the sun on any day. Others teach you nothing but silence and prayers plus rest for the night. You give us all this and more, with our hearts understanding…
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Keep the generation who choose hope!
There is a generation whose morals may cause fear to creep in. When you see them dragging themselves into a mud of darkness, when you see them slide over snakes as if they are one, when you see them loop around together in an image that only tells the story of themselves. Don’t worry for…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 