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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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Keep your name!
If you ask, I’ll say freedom, dreams, failure, perseverance, love, community, are the reasons why I do it, give names to the vision, my papa and Onyelo, plus mama, saw when they first named me, framed me, for things good.
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Keep these STARS who know there are no rules!
These days we see all rules can be broken. Institutions broken. Though we wondered how they would apply the rules, we watched as they applied the rules. Our STARS came brilliant, bright, knowing these are different times, uncertain ones, but their time. We left fully bright, in awe of their brilliance. These may be uncertain…
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Keep being STARS!
And so we begin. Welcome to STAR cohort 3 where to be a star, is to do work that Toni Morrison would say is beautiful, powerful, but should also work. It should have something in it that enlightens, something in it that opens doors and points the ways. Let’s Go STARS.
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Keep looking up!
If I had the right words, the right tone, the right answers, or the right feelings about the past week, it would seem as if things were indeed right. Nothing about these times we find ourselves in is right. More and more, are understanding that this isn’t a sprint and elections have consequences. Yet there…
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Keep each day!
Night ends and though this day won’t happen again, we know where we stand, and see the light that shines, and the way we opened and reopened our heart, the way we knew the call was his for his sake, the way these words flow like a lake, is the reason why a day should…
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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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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 