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In the face of hardship, Honoria is a study in persistence and survival. After years of grieving, she established a life for herself in a refugee camp in Uganda. She started a new family, marrying again and raising five children. For ...more
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Rebecca Solnit
“To spin the web and not be caught in it, to create the world, to create your own life, to rule your fate, to name the grandmothers as well as the fathers, to draw nets and not just straight lines, to be a maker as well as a cleaner, to be able to sing and not be silenced, to take down the veil and appear: all these are the banners on the laundry line I hang out.”
Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

Lauren Groff
“[The ones made for music are the most beloved of all. Their bodies a container for the spirit within; the best of them is music, the rest only instrument of flesh and bone.]”
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

Lauren Groff
“We will return to them. For now, he’s the one we can’t look away from. He is the shining one.”
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

Ken Robinson
“Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.”
Ken Robinson, The Element - How finding your passion changes everything

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