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Who was your cheerleader?
I read somewhere about the importance of a cheerleader in a child’s life – someone who really sees them, notices their accomplishments, and cheers them on. Ideally every child will have more than one of these, but this was about … Continue reading
Before I Was a Twinkle
Before I was even a twinkle in his eye,My father risked his life To fight in a foreign landAgainst a great evil. Now that evil has taken root here,And grows steadily stronger Nurtured by foolsIn the country that he loved. … Continue reading
Who are you walking with?
Walk with me for a moment. Please think of a great injustice from history – a systemic denial of rights to a group. There are a sad plenty to choose from – different issues, different groups denied, but they share … Continue reading
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What You Don’t See
I would not have survived the world you are creating now. If what is happening in this country now had happened a few decades ago, it would very likely have killed me (as it already has other women.) My daughter … Continue reading
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What I Won’t Say . . .
If you live long enough, you will see how wrong you are right now. You probably won’t acknowledge it, but you will see. It will be impossible not to. You will see then how on the wrong side of history … Continue reading
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I Believe You Now
You showed me so many times who you are now. But I didn’t believe you. Because I didn’t want to. I couldn’t bear letting go of who I thought you were. Who you used to be. I miss that person … Continue reading
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You Should Have Lost Me
You should have lost me long ago. Likely, you would not have noticed,But I feared the cold if I let the fire die. So, I kept the fire.All alone, like my mother before me,I have watched and tended, kept the … Continue reading
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Advice from Maya
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them . . . the first time.”— Maya Angelou Believe them the first time. Don’t wait for them to keep ON showing you. Because they will. It’s such good advice. I believed … Continue reading
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Tomorrow Magic
If I had magic, here is the first thing I would do with it: Tomorrow, all misogynist men will wake up as women. Each of them will retain full awareness and memory of their entire previous life as a man … Continue reading
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Musical rabbit trail
Come with me down one of my rabbit trails if you will. (It starts happy and ends sad, so you can stop here if you want.) Yesterday, I saw an adorable video of a little boy singing Al Green’s “Let’s … Continue reading
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