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Keep purple coneflowers!
I saw purple cone flowers on my morning run today. The past week has been a walk through hell. Seeing purple cone flowers were the sight I needed to wrap up a terrible week. I took a picture of the flower. I read what they stood for. Flowers like this thrive in open wooded areas.…
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Keep a space for all ideas!
I am learning to sing a song my way. To do so through struggles and hurdles along the way. I was asked what was my turning point recently. I mentioned the moment I got the largest grant ever. But looking back. I should have answered the day I began to sing the song of my…
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Keep unveiling death’s lessons!
Even when it’s full of pain, death is always beautiful. Of course the heart grieves and longs for moments now rare. But the closeness it ushers, the magic is offers, of seeing people, hearing from people, are all of what makes death sublime. We are in a phase where death is reconnecting us. In a…
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Keep the life lessons of death!
On this Juneteenth day, we saw death today. Seeing the last drops of life, the grave closing in, kept us thinking about this journey through life. Will we reach the end with pride, whisper sweet nothings in the end. However you chose to go: so long Jackie. From your last thoughts to your last words.…
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Keep Light Festival 2
We spoke to our inner selves today. In the middle of a festival for the public’s health by the public. There were stories of bravery, stories of change, stories of ovaries, stories of light. I left the day full. I imagine there will be moments like this in public health, moments where the source of…
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Keep Belle’s depths with ease!
Only our memories will linger on, against the cobbled streets in the city of lights. And who can choose between there and here, between the depths of the past and the ease of now. Darkness every time will lose and who can choose between the joys of a future where Nkiruka or the hurdles of…
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Keep young people close!
A little over four years ago, a developer, my team and I were working with disappeared. We searched everywhere for him and couldn’t find me. He was young and many people told us to move on, that young people are never reliable. We knew it was unlike him but his disappearance shattered us too. We…
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Keep Light!
I made an investment today, for a future that once seemed impossible. My state of being and all that I hoped to become fundamentally changed with this investment. Possibilities of life, all of which that enable me to voice and imagine more than I can be, allowed me to make this investment fully. There will…
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Keep Light!
I made an investment for a future that once seemed impossible. My state of being and all that I hoped to become fundamentally changed with this investment. Possibilities of life, all of which that enable me to voice and imagine more than I can be, allowed me to make this investment fully. There will be…
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Keep knowing Olisa don co-sign me!
I spent the evening working out. These words kept me going. The fact that Olisa don co-sign me for one. Then if you want to lose, bet against me. Not my words, but I am embracing it this season of my life. That and as you no dey for me, I carry my cross go…
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Keep grants as survival
Imagine being on the shoreline, crucial and alone. Imagine doing so to open a world rigidly closed. Imagine instigating unlearning, as you stimulate learning with words turned radical in the practice for freedom. The past one year I have been on a journey that I never could have imagined for myself. Two years ago, I…
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Keep grants as poetry!
Sometimes grants come to me as poetry. Often disconnected from reality, I am learning they enable me to be persistent with reality. The tools for grant-writing belong to masters whose noose can be tight around your neck if you don’t understand their intent. I do. So, sometimes, grants come to me a poetry. For hidden…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 