100 Word Wednesday: 158
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Allyship
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In our home, we are taking time to educate ourselves and listen to BIPOC voices.
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Black Lives Matter
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Railing against the inequities in the world and realizing my own contributions to it.
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Image by Bikurgurl Thank you for joining our awesome writing community who challenges themselves weekly as we weave together our 100 words! It’s been a while – thank you to those who encouraged me to restart 100 Word Wednesdays! I’ve missed seeing you on Instagram and here, but look forward to catching up with you this summer! Miss me? Feel free to post stories linked … Continue reading 100 Word Wednesday: Week 142
Image by Bikurgurl Thank you for joining our awesome writing community who challenges themselves weekly as we weave together our 100 words! I’ve been traveling and taking a social media break – I’ve missed seeing you on Instagram and here, but look forward to catching up with you this summer! Miss me? Feel free to post stories linked to previous 100 Word Wednesday images — … Continue reading 100 Word Wednesday: Week 134
Image by Bikurgurl The Show Must Go On They took the stage ready to play the song I longed to hear them play. An old favorite I’d heard when I was young, I longed to have the music take me back to a time of innocence. A time of ignorance. “This is for all of you who are young at heart, but old in soul,” … Continue reading The Show Must Go On
Image by Bikurgurl Deep in Planning So putting together the planning doesn’t start wit making a calendar, oh no…it starts with knowing my children. It starts with knowing their interests, goals, dreams, dislikes…it proceeds to what I’d like to weave into our year and what our long-term plan is for college readiness. The long term plan is more like a framework, not a directive. It’s … Continue reading Deep in Planning
Image by Bikurgurl Poetry Tuesday We don’t really do tea in the summer, but the Biscoff cookies were finally devoured this morning as I pulled out the vintage copy of Paradise Lost I picked up in a second hand Midwest book store a few years ago. What I love about it, aside from it’s beautiful hardbound, Booky smell, are the carefully pencilled annotations of one … Continue reading Poetry Tea Time Freewrite
Image by Bikurgurl 2019 Bikurgram 2019 Yesterday was a day of doing the hard work of growth in relationships. Of being the grown up to the ‘grown ups’, of standing up to the decades of posturing and unintentional painful words to stop the cycle from continuing. It’s the hard work of adults to protect the children in our lives from facing the same emotional suckerpunches … Continue reading The Hard Work
Happy Earth Day!! I’ll be planting trees and getting my garden in the ground today to celebrate. I love the spring, a time to shake off the winter cold, a time for renewal. We celebrate it in our plants waking from their winter slumber and in our family, we celebrate it in the Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ. My career, once upon a time, … Continue reading Earth Day 2019
