anniversary

One Year Has Now Passed: A Letter to Moses

Moses, on this day, I don’t know where or how you are, but I do know that after having lived the extraordinary honor of being a mama to you, I am now grateful to carry you, carry your joy and your resilience, carry the sincerity of your smile and the light of your little life, with me as I fiercely love this world, so that all whose paths may cross mine might be graced with some small sense of what it is to have loved and been loved by you.

if i’d never met you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4GTVYHOM_M I found this song a few days ago and have been listening to it on repeat for a number of reasons/friends, but today, I woke up, listened to the song, and thought of you, Maggie. “I know you are my friend and if I’d never met you I would be different” These words areContinueContinue reading “if i’d never met you”

a day to be lived

Sometimes I have low moments. Sometimes I get overwhelmed. Sometimes I get so far into my headspace I can’t figure out how to get back to here. Sometimes I get so anxious trying to figure life out that I become paralyzed from living it. Sometimes I look at the calendar and see the many datesContinueContinue reading “a day to be lived”

on such an anniversary as this, 2013

written August 14, 2013 On such an anniversary as this. Three years ago today I boarded the plane taking me to Kenya and to the discovery of myself. On this anniversary, I am thankful. Thankful for the immense honor and gift it was to live alongside, to learn alongside, my Kenyan family at such aContinueContinue reading “on such an anniversary as this, 2013”

Two years ago on August 15, 2010 I arrived in Kenya with Annie Garau for the four most extraordinary, challenging, life-changing months of my life so far. One year ago on August 15, 2011 I had a panic attack in my mentor’s office about this one-year anniversary of the arrival into what my life hasContinueContinue reading “anniversary”