Dear world,
I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.
–Charlotte Eriksson
What She Said, January 1: Charlotte Eriksson
What She Said, December 31: Hillary DePiano
Midnight on New Year’s Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we’re aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we’re sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow. –Hillary DePiano
What She Said, December 30: Anne Frank
What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet. –Anne Frank
My Personal Time Capsule 2020
2020 has been a doozy of a year. Between a global pandemic and a fractious presidential election, many of us in the U.S. are ready to leave 2020 in the rearview. But […]
What She Said, December 29: Morgan Harper Nichols
When you start to think of all the things that should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here….Those moments weren’t in vain. You are not the same, you have grown and you are growing….You are wrapped in boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday. –Morgan Harper Nichols
What She Said, December 28: Maria Robinson
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. –Maria Robinson
My 2020 Curriculum: Adulting 101
I should schedule days where I am a little girl and days of adulting.
On Martha and Mary
If I’m not serving, who am I? If I’m not helping others, why am I here?
What She Said, December 13: Ursula K. Le Guin
Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers . . . like hands joined together, like the end and the way. –Ursula K. LeGuin
What She Said, December 12: Octavia Butler
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God
is Change.
–Octavia Butler
The Gloria Sirens 