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Keep surrendering as you balance work and life!
In the process of identifying new team members for our ever expanding team, I was asked a poignant question that made me pause a bit. Specifically the interviewee asked: How do I balance work and life obligations? I paused mainly because I thought I wasn’t the one being interviewed. I also paused because the question…
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Keep looking on the bright side or happy 10th birthday Chiwetel!
Exactly 10 years ago, at around 5:30am, we gave birth to a boy whom we would later name our gift from God. Chiwetel was as beautiful as any sunny day. Lotanna and mama visited us later that morning. I still vividly recall Lotanna in her pink dress and pink tights, with spiky threaded hair, the…
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Keep knowing your worth!
It’s been 7 months of working in a new and supportive space and the key lessons from my 3 month mark remain the same: 1) Know your worth; 2) Dream about your worth even if for yourself alone: 3) Speak eloquently and proudly about your worth; 4) Leave any space and people who do not…
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Keep change!
We accept change without reason, for good or bad or wise. We accept it even if we never understand. We accept it when questions still remain. Like drops of rain, that fall unrehearsed, like a fragrance that clings to air, like joy that evolves over time, we accept change, day by day like the silence…
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Keep this gratitude for the first ever megadesignathon multi-disease health campaign!
This is the way I would like to dream, with a team as tall as evergreen palm trees. A community as deep as any stream of water. I’d like to dream while the day is young, the skies are clear and our feet are planted as we dance near streams of water. They say gratitude…
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Keep the days of Temi
Things are clear. Things are starting to fall in place with grace like a gazelle. We heard of dreams, those full of shields for communities, those steady and easy. Those of hero’s, those unboxed, many with substance and hue, playlets and blues. Now, our dreams boom, they do so with the wind, do so as…
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Keep tomorrow’s dreams!
We sat and watched the start of what can only be described as divine. While I am slowly discerning a lot about life these days, to see possibilities, dreams fulfilled, those in the Illuminating phase keeps me humble. When we decided to carry out our latest project as a mega designathon, I thought, perhaps I…
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Keep this view of the world!
I read an article entitled “a very narrow view of the world” by Dr. Sandro Galea that made me ponder about my role working to study health. Over Easter dinner, I was asked what i did for work and the descriptions kept changing until my soul settled with the words, “I am in service to…
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Keep gathering with your community!
When we gather, with tiny legs and colorful eggs we do so in love, in light, and with a grace that has no bounds…
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Keep the memories of two women this Easter Sunday!
Women will be there again and again. Every time the story is told. They were there that Sunday morning when death rose like flames. There was a tomb, they looked at it. They saw the earth quake. And a stone rolled away. Pictures form and remain in my head. Of two women who looked on.…
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Keep community!
I sat through a meeting earlier this week where we discussed all the ways to engage with communities. A friend of mine shared the same thing too about how she attended a meeting with folks trying to figure out just what community engagement entails. Both communities were academic and both had minimal input from folks…
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Keep the lessons of Good Friday!
I have gathered my pain, the abundance of it all, into an old rugged cross, my father, my grandmother, my uncles, my aunties, my nephew, my jobs, my innocence, my loss, plus Angie, all have come together, like a wreath, with the endless abundance on a cross, all hailing the depths of the pain, where…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 