Watching a child grow is both beautiful and bittersweet. Their innocence does not disappear; it becomes layered beneath fears, memories, and hard-won armor. Perhaps growing up is less about losing the child within and more about entering a cocoon, where transformation quietly prepares us to emerge free once again, whole.
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Unity Day?
As I sit outside, listening to the fireworks for the Fourth of July, I think: What if I shift in my mind from “we’re celebrating Independence Day” to “we’re celebrating Unity Day”? Then, what if we were to take all the different holidays that celebrate individual collectives and make them all Unity Days? We couldContinueContinue reading “Unity Day?”