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Keep surrendering to life this Christmas and beyond…
When life is your friend, not your enemy or your nemesis, when you live in profound trust of the synergies within this one life you live, then you will surrender to life. You will surrender as you begin to feel life like you see death, as one wholesome entity you experience together. One you love,…
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Keep knowing Ani ka mmadu!
One year ago, we sat and watched as a people gathered on grounds we called home and prayed for us, thanked God for us, and insisted that everything good will come for us. They will never know how their prayers went on passed the grounds they prayed on through to the heavens above for a…
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Keep blooming like a rose!
When time is up, and the fruits of your labor emerge, and faded memories linger, and faces and voices creep further away, and the ripples that form disappear, leaving behind a blunt-edge sword, and something to live for, when all the truth of your days are known may nothing but stillness and enduring horizons find…
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Keep knowing your worth: part 2!
For those who want to know their worth, know that it promises you nothing but fire. You will discover fire and walk through it. Discover it burn and still pass through it. Many around you will not see the fire and will walk past you and your fire. They will walk and be blind to…
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Keep knowing your worth!
It’s been three months since I transitioned to a much more supportive institution and space for my research with some really heavy weights in Global Health, D&I and grant-writing. Here are some key highlights: 1) Know your worth; 2) Dream about your worth even if for yourself alone: 3) Speak eloquently and proudly about your…
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Keep the art of gathering!
Grace A million notes of thanks lingered in a room this evening. Pumpkin pies, delightful communion, over chicken and greens. Thank you, thank you, thank you for the gift of gathering, for these moments of pampering, for the chance to remember what it means to connect with each other. They are like the moment when…
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Keep dreaming!
Some truths are in full cycle now. Many will not understand, how light unravels itself. But the truth is ours. It has always been now that we see the fruits of our dreaming. See antelopes bend to drink from streams dreaming. See the sun follow us across the horizon lingering. See too how dreaming set…
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Keep reimagining cancer equity in Africa with stories and people that shape your life!
As a Ronald McNair scholar, our advisors at Penn stated noted we had to speak with researchers who were doing similar things we were interested in. Dr. Teresa Tassoti asked if I knew Dr. Collins Airhihenbuwa. I said no and she noted that I should go speak to him. The reason, like so many undergrads,…
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Keep, keep, your stories!
Some of us have been blessed or cursed to see beyond ourselves. Our only mercy is memory, but our regret is hell. Sometimes you don’t survive whole, sometimes you survive in parts. The key is the attempt and the surrender to memories that help you see beyond yourself. I am in a space where storytelling…
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Keep being open!
To see the door, at least once. Amidst fears of what could be. To see the door and debate whether to open or leave it close. Before the rustling winds that blow. Before trees fighting to be still. See those holding on to dreams. Choose to open the door. With the courage of a day…
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Keep surrendering to your dreams!
I did a thing today. Surrendered my dreams to universe. They say there are two moments that define a person’s life. The day they are born and the day they realize why. I found my why today. Like Kwesi Brew’s poem, I know which road to take….
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Keep turning on your own, for your own!
More than once we take memories, those hard and true, those painful and fruitful, we take them all and use them to blossom like tall Iroko trees. We are woman. Ordinary, but woman. We are all of life, surrounded by the love for life. We are pictures, perfect, broken, but pictures capturing memories, of times…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 