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Where the Wildflowers Grow

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God Is With You Every Day: 365-Day Devotional

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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

by Eckhart Tolle

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Cherese’s Notes & Highlights

Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan

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If I had it to do over, I probably wouldn’t have had any kids. It’s too much responsibility trying to steer somebody else’s life when you’re still trying to navigate your own.

Reading this makes me feel like I'm making the right choice

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“Racism, for many people, seems to occupy space in very much the same way as dark matter: it forms the skeleton of our world, yet remains ultimately invisible, undetectable. This is convenient. If nothing is racist, then nothing needs to be done to address it.”
― Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

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“The skillset you need to survive is not the same skillset you need to love and be loved”
― Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs

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“It’s hard to let go of control, to stop trying to be the architect of not only our own lives but the lives of the people around us as we single-mindedly work towards our own flawed constructions of "perfection." Once we do, though, we might actually be able to recognize the beauty we’ve missed.”
― Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

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“Our love was a process of unlearning the bad love we'd been given.”
― Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

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“Corn, beans, and squash were once all my people needed. They were so essential to our everyday lives that we referred to them as our sisters. We would preserve each plant's seeds and pass them on to our children, knowing that with this gift, they would be able to provide the same nutritious food for their families that we provided for them. This was an act of absolute, undiminished intergenerational love. And if intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can't intergenerational love?”
― Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

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