Tag: writing
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Keep Mother’s Day!
If you ask me which blessings are wild, I may speak of the day I smiled next to a lion, moments where my walk was straight and confident, the day we held hands in the sight of many stands tall, so too the moment we laid eyes on a country life. Something’s have forced me…
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Keep the end of chaos with global health in mind!
If you ask how chaos begins with anything related to global health, I’ll start from the end, of how you finally release, that scream you let go in private. The prayers, many of faith, determination and belief in liberation ultimately lead to communities building out of helplessness, emptiness as they embark on journey towards the…
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Keep a Pope that personifies Global Health or this call to serve!
Today everyone watched, stared, and maybe even smiled as we celebrated the sight of white smoke billowing from skies. The graceful angles and the answered prayers that followed ushered Pope Leo squarely into the spotlight. Who is he? Why him? And how might we know when his ways are our ways? Only time will tell…
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Keep these moments with global health!
Some of us are stepping through the door full of curiosity for what this new phase of global health research will look like. Clearly it would feel like a helicopter landing in areas it shouldn’t be. We are waiting for answers, solutions, even rain to come and soothe the chaos about to unfold. When time…
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Keep global health!
I would rather study global health than any other field, yet all fields have their force worthy of reflections. Complex issues requiring multiple lens pulls me forward, bravely, to navigate, even if slowly, what can be done to address the complexity. Global health requires many endeavors with ample narratives that require us to turn the page…
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Keep knowing that global health is for all of us!
I write about global health. Write often about what makes it worthwhile. The people of course, the learning we do, the adaptations along the way and of course why we still nurture what matters for the field. Every where I go I tell people that I am a global health researcher passionate about sustaining evidence…
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Keep these words of freedom, words of hope!
Some words say the unspeakable, shape the drama and tenor of any moment until you are forced to become entangled by the powers within them. Some words create community, instill a sense of mission that keeps you rooted even if on a cross. These days, I’m in the mood for celebrating how words are freedom,…
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Keep this heroic global health movement!
As a community, I write on behalf of us all. We don’t need any one story, any singular experience as the experience that personifies what global health means for all of us. Not when all experiences matter. In the words of Toni Morrison, what we need now is a heroic global health movement, one assertive,…
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Keep choosing joy
I am going to choose joy, deliberately choose it ways, delight in its turns, those that lead to distant places, then choose joy again. Our source of joy for today. Meet baby Jet…
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Keep the freedom of dreams!
There is a certain kind of freedom that dwells in people who dream. It’s the kind that knows no limits, fears no limit and is forever prepared to soar past any limit. Today, I learnt to be grateful for this freedom. See where people curse the despair that swells to the brim, those who dream…
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Keep the tears!
Today I cried. I let the tears flow for awhile. No need playing strong. Tears were all we knew. So I sat back in my chair looking out the window. Rain was falling as it should, with drops that mirrored the ones flowing down my eyes. We have been told that the urgency for today…
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Keep the plan for roads that lead to light!
I imagine life is like a road. Some roads will take you down a path of strife. Everything from the beginning through to the middle and even the end would feel unreal. You will keep looking for ways to leave the road, take any turn out of it, only to find yourself walking through a…