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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…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 9: Sojourner Truth
This week, we celebrate caregivers, the ones who step into every gap, fight for our loved ones when no one else will, and remind us: care begins with believing we deserve it. Sojourner Truth embodied that fierce devotion. When her son was illegally sold into slavery, she prayed, she marched…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 8: Ida B. Wells x Zora Neale Hurston
Ida B. Wells knew that the state wasn’t built to protect us. That we had to protect each other, and ourselves. She once said: “A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every Black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to…