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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
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“[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.]”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
“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.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.”
― The Element - How finding your passion changes everything
― The Element - How finding your passion changes everything
“Because it’s true: more than the highlights, the bright events, it was in the small and the daily where she’d found life.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
“Paradox of marriage: you can never know someone entirely; you do know someone entirely.”
― Fates and Furies
― Fates and Furies
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