Tag: storytelling
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Keep telling the story!
Some of us will tell a story of the moments we returned so to tell the glory of how some of us did not die. We stood there and waited and listened and poured water back to the earth returning lives back to the earth, for their freedom is our freedom and our freedom is…
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Keep a fruitful day!
They possess a look, a feel, a thing, that can only be described as joy. Those many may not know. Those hidden. Those few remember. Those we choose to keep. For day after day and of course on this most colorful day, they help us spread joy to all. Happy Halloween from my fruitful family…
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Keep being a bright star!
We spent today discussing the approach section of a grant. It’s my least favorite section to write. One where I actually struggled to teach it. There are no right or wrong way to write an approach section. Every grant will be different I noted. The least you can do is anticipate the conflict inherent in…
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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 chance meetings with Angelique Kidjo.
I love the lit corners of her melodies. They remind of why you can’t be hard to a hard world forever. You might as well dance like the sun through the morning mist. And meet life’s screams with your own thundering roars. If you can’t stop the rain, you might as well let it pour…
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Keep soaring like eagles
The turning point for me was the pandemic. I found myself wanting to know myself better. Work was intense. Family life too. Yet, both demanded more from me, even in the middle of a pandemic. So I did what I thought would save me: looking intently inside myself. It meant that I discovered many selves.…
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Keep being radiant!
Some of us hide our voice under fear. In an unknown space where our dreams and our will are at war. We end up being in our own way. Things are not as easy as they seem. So we hide our thoughts under fear. Until we proceed towards ourselves. For who wants a life of…
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Keep these experiences!
I lay my head, and let the sound of nothing flow into my ear. But the sound of children crying, my head now exploding, as nothing describes, how these soft foundations, these complexities of sound, these words flowing from my head, in a way, order, clear, the chaos, the cavity, clouding my chambers. Some days…
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Keep beginning again even with grants!
From now on, the world has you and all theways you begin again, blazing through, your way, for life. The world sees you, as you stand aside, laying your weapon aside. Grants are like poetry to you, and so, as always, begin again. For the world, has only one of you… Earlier today, the words…
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Keep these songs from our ancestors, we sing!
Knowledge is for the ancestors. I am learning that every day as I sink deeply into an anthem of the decades. From the origin of life, to the nature of words and their meanings, they say the secret of ancient wisdom lies in what we name, and the meanings we keep, those new, those forgotten…
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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 leaning not on your own!
I have seen wide eyes that mirrored my soul. Daring heights with wonder still nestled in my soul. They say hope is a thing you never do alone, even if you die alone. Find it all the way down in yourself, where it can never be judged like children, who tell stories, all on their…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 