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Keep the possibilities of dreams
If you ever find yourself spending days in glorious celebration of a cause, those that birthed dreams, even if the tip of your head, or the warmth of your soul, basks in moments full of grace, I hope they fill you still with memories full of possibilities.
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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 being polemical with your words!
A single word can lead the mind to traces of contemplation. They are like silences that take over, holding you uncomfortable for so long. Like fault lines and shifting plates that require you to invade the part of your brain where words are like air, forcing you to breathe in, breathe out. A couple of…
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Keep a full moon!
Surrounded by light, we, bend, break, then build, dreams, ours now, theirs tomorrow, we breathe in soft thoughts we breathe out blind spots of ebony souls in the middle of the night whose arch is as sublime as the brilliant moon.
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Keep the idea of delegating however hard with your grants!
I had a meeting yesterday with a dear friend that was checking into my grant submission goals for the year. They are of course a lot and insane and we are so ready to dream. One thing she noted was that I needed to delegate. I said if you have been burned like me, like…
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Keep being grass!
If you find me at the brink of giving up, at the point of forgetting love, at a basement with no light, at dawn with no song, at a gathering with no tears, at the edge with no words, at a Red Sea with no faith at a desert with no thirst at a devotion…
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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 protecting your light!
I was reminded by a dear friend the other day that when I thought I dimmed my light, when during the transition year of 2023, the chaos and conflicts, the move from one place to another brought so much bitterness and anger, when I dimmed my energy, when I didn’t even acknowledge that I was…
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Keep being you!
In the book Be You, Peter Reynolds writes about how we are born to be so many things: curious, brave, patient, adventurous. The art of staying true to yourself requires though that we first be ourselves no matter what journey we find ourselves in. Of all the various ways to be yourself, one that stood…
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Keep words for every day things you love in 2025!
Everyday, I am surrounded by ideas beautiful, one of which is you, words to keep, firing up my life as nothing else could. Of course there are things to do, places to go, children to raise, and people to love, but still the thought of keeping words, one at a time, is like the red…
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Keep the sounds of love for 2024!
This evening as we gathered together, I listened to sounds of those that hold us close. One was crying, my first son. He had just used his dad’s clippers to scrap hair off his head. His little brothers and older sister talked about getting him a toupe to cover his head as his dad tried…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 