Tag: stories
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Keep the genesis of a plan!
If there is an ache and you are confused, perhaps the only thing left to do is dream. When you learn a craft, practice it, otherwise what use is your knowledge about sustainment if you can’t sustain anything. The genesis of your plan, is perhaps your greatest treasure. Keep it.
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Keep your dreams!
We build with what we have, with stone, some sand, a little bit of cloud and a lot full of dreams all pieced together. Super proud of her!
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Keep your light!
The essence of darkness is light and night, day and just as the sun comes up every morning, it will surely go down at night.
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Keep seeking to last through with light!
We discern the end from the beginning. Many were there from the beginning, hence why the beginning is clear. Notes are written. Visions are vivid and yet the end, for many comes and fades as if the beginning held no clues. Will you fail? Will it be difficult? Of course. But what if we tried,…
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Keep stories of all the ways you survive and sustain your light as you build sustainable systems for health!
How to survive, love, and sustain yourself as a black tenured professor in academic spaces.
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Keep centering sustainment!
I spent the day opening the doors to the source of my being in academic world. I cherish describing myself as a researcher passionate about how to sustain evidence based interventions or programs. I have also read and re-read literature on what this means for the field that sitting in a room full of brilliant…
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Keep love with sustaining anything!
It’s becoming truly clear these days that sustaining anything in a community setting is about integration. Of course it includes the different parts that make up an evidence-based intervention or program, but all these parts for communities limited with resources, need to be integrated into a whole that is greater than the sum of its…
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Keep getting up!
I am learning that true, you can blame others for pushing you down, but you have yourself to blame for refusing to get up. September often had me revisiting where I was just 2 years ago. The skies were bleak and I have blamed others including myself for how things ended in the end. I’m…
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Keep Africa rising!
I sat in a room that left me speechless yesterday. Also inspired. The theme was Africa rising and my ears and heart were in awe. They are still ringing and full of ideas even as we write this that I had to say a special thank you to the one who saw me enough to…
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Keep your journey!
On the path to your dreams, you will come across fear, failure, doubts, and a heavy dose of despair. Yet, still you will walk as if there is no other path worth taking. It’s your dreams after all and even if it leads to despair, at least you are dreaming
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Keep this grace!
Imagine falling over the edge, not once, or twice, just falling, hoping, praying you would land on something soft, like a soft light feathery cushion, to withstand what may have pushed you over the edge. I was pushed this week, pushed so hard that I expect no pillows in the end, just a rock and…
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Keep everything!
They say everything is good. Every beginning, every moment, every fear, every strength, everything we will do is good. We meet every need at the right time. Every dream too. Like the moon we are full, when all we do is good. so keep everything.