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A Year of Quiet: Off Social Media and into Real Life and What’s Next
I’m getting off social media. For like a year. I’m so excited about it and I’m terrified, but I’m also getting beaucoup signs to just do it. Here’s a few signs (though I’ve been getting ‘em nonstop): 1: J. Cole! He’s one of my favorite rappers and he recently dropped…
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From Okra to Sugarcane to Shirini Danmarki: When Home Shows Up, Belonging Does Too
“Who likes okra?” Chef Michael W. Twitty asked us last night. We were circled around a bonfire, some of us in chairs we brought from home, others on logs sawed into makeshift stoops. Almost all hands flew up, including my 16-year-old daughter’s. Side conversations sparked up around me about how…
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The Dance of Surrender and Intention: Life Reminders from Wedding Planning
I got married last Saturday and had a beautiful wedding. Up until we were 30 days out, I was coasting. Then it got stressful. I can’t even say the closer we got to the date, because it was actually the closer we got to the aisle, the more my shoulders…
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15 Survival Lessons from Octavia Butler’s Earthseed Series
I extracted these lessons from Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. I also shared this list on TikTok and, as one person commented, “People spend a lot of time pointing out the ways [Octavia Butler] predicted today’s tragedies. They forget to see the ways…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 10: Harriet Tubman x Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower was written in 1989, published in 1983, but the book is set in 2024-2027. #OctaviaButler got down with this one. Her foresight was prophetic. She saw the climate crisis, the rise of corporate control, the collapse of social structures, etc. This week’s theme is NextGen to…