● What I Wish For
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Change. Is a word.
Nothing lasts forever. Change is life and everything in it… changes. I heard those words in my very impressionable first years when my father … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Category: It Gets Better
● Refresh my Memory
Just what did we fight for? Refresh my memory, please. It’s Veterans Day, right?
Women and men spent months, years, or a lifetime protecting this country’s ideals around the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● October Flower
For many people on the planet, halloween and its attendant activities will soon be here. For me still… I can’t do it. Here is why. In my … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● The Way It Gets Better
This especially resonates with me today.
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So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● La Negra Peregrina en el Camino
Tribute
If I – a pilgrim – may be so bold, audacious even, let me tell you this: you are in my thoughts today. And I have a surprise … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Don’t Break the Eagle’s Wings…
… then tell it to fly. *
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Harriet Ross Tubman and all the brave and bold women behind us, with us, and before us 🌹
There is power
… 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞● Power to Heal
1.1.2021
For those who lost love and discovered much more.
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Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky/ And feel … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● This is My Costume
Can the ritual of halloween really have meaning after this year of great loss and pain to the world? I was never a fan of such activities at anytime … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Sanctuary is Not a Beach
On occasion, I retreat to my workshop to get away from the problems of the world. I can’t. It’s hard to displace worry and fear from my mind. Why? … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● It’s Never Too Late to Open a Door
Thinking about my life, I have done and learned many things.
Pun alert: there are a few puns in this post. Yes, they are intended but most of the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Kwanzaa and the End of a Decade
In light of the extraordinary times you, I, and the world are experiencing, I am offering, with gratitude today, this post which I wrote at the end of … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Student Becomes the Teacher
We are born students in a classroom. For some of us, mama and papa are our first teachers. Life is the classroom. Life is the subject.
I find … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞