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In honor of…Mrs. Peckham
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This past week a very special person past away. My middle school English teacher fought the fight of breast cancer for over 30 years and it finally won. She was a fighter, she was the original fighter. She was the strongest woman I have ever met. Her personality was strong and tenacious and she left a deep impression on my heart. I met this Scottish woman when I was in middle school. I had heard about her. She was tough and could be mean. She was loud and others were quite afraid of her. she had a legacy of being…
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Proud
Last night I was walking back to my car from my college class. A class I have had to drop and a class that I have failed several times. The “last class.” The last class until I have earned my BA in child development. My nemesis, if you will. As I passed the very familiar tennis courts on the way to my car, a tear started to fall. A tear of pride. You see, not far, less than a quarter mile from this spot I was walking on is a park. A park that many things in my life happened…
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Wolf grin and tiger growl
I just want truth in my life. I just want to be able to get up in the morning and know that I am living my true life. I do not want to feel like I am anyone less than who I was created to be. I want to surround myself with people who will cheer me on in my journey. The truth of this life is that we are to be there for each other. I abandoned my life to help others. I abandoned thinking that my own life was important enough to show up for myself for. So…
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Poetry and inner work
It is a Wednesday and I am at the coffee shop. I have spent the last few hours working on math. The dreaded statistics class. I am glad I got as far as I could. This past weekend I explored some things on my own. I went to a play and I went to a poetry workshop. As I sit here, I see my reflection of my necklace and it says the Ho’oponono saying on it. I am very proud of where I am in my life. I am here and I am working on me. I am unapologetic about…
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Release
Release. Release those that have disappointed you. Release your past. Release all the things. So in an attempt to do just that. I write. I write about things that may have happened in a life that I have learned from but that I walk away from. I will not live there anymore. It’s time is up. Just a I sit here, the rain comes down. The rain is being released to be free to hit the earth and do its next job on earth by allowing it to make things grow. It is a circle I want to be part…
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Keep going
I sat on the couch in the home of my 8th grade English teacher. This was the second visit in the last few months with her. We sat and talked and watched one of her favorite shows she found on television. Her fiesty comments reminded me of sitting in her class so many years ago. So here was my chance to ask her some things and so I did. “Mrs. P, can I ask you a question?” She said, “sure”. “What keeps you going?” I asked. “Rage,” she said quickly. This was not the response I had anticipated. Thinking about…
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Life and thoughts
Hello and good afternoon. It is a lazy Sunday afternoon and I am at a coffee like house and I sit and listen to the music playing. Very jazz and very mellow. I would like to think that this is how my life has merged into. Mellow. The craziness of the world and what I have been through sometimes can overwealm me. The thought this morning about being okay to be sad and sit in what I need to sit in. It is not a very fun place to have to sit in. But it is necesary for complete healing.…
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Loss and inspiration
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It is 3am on a Thursday and I am awake. So many thoughts about so many things. But when I think about writing something, all I could think of was how lost I feel. I feel lost in a lot of things in life right now. I know I am moving forward and I have not given up hope in my future. But it is really hard to see anything right now. The lense of my life is very blurry. Earlier this week I attended a memorial of a friend’s spouse. This friend has been my hero. She was there…
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Strength
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I was gifted this incredible strength. I believe it was from birth. I was placed in a family that developed my strength. As an adult, I have always been told I was strong. As I reflect back on that now, I can honestly say I had to be strong. Not in a victim way, but as a true reflection of who I am. Deep in my soul and in my character. It was placed in me this strength. I continue to amaze myself as to what I have endured and have developed into being who I am. Who I was…
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Energy
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My energy is what makes me who I am. I had lost it for quite some time. I let it seep out of me like a bad lingering cut you keep opening up. My energy is weird, unusual, fierce, and untouchable. I am unique and have been since birth. My presence has always been one of much conviction. I hold true to what my core beliefs are. I can laugh at myself but am also the hardest on my self. I am always in competition with myself. My creative side reveals much more of the inner dancer I connected with…
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Quiet Intensity 