Dear Survivor,Tomorrow we will start another month. We will focus our attention on another group or issue of which to be aware or celebrate. Tomorrow, folks will gradually stop wearing that color that signals they want the world to know about trafficking and exploitation. The news will slow down those stories of “rescue” and arrest. The requests to tell your […]
WriteTogether Reflection: Week Fourteen
The prompts for week fourteen are all about reflecting on the adjustments I need to make in order to move forward in life and setting the year ahead. And to be honest, even though I codesigned this writing journey, I really wasn’t thinking about these questions being the questions I would need to be asking myself during this past week. […]
WriteTogether Reflection: Week Thirteen
I decided that this week I would share with you an excerpt from my writing. Just me in the moment, a bit of my response to one of the prompts… A whole new world. That’s what I want. A community and world that loves so hard on each other that prisons become fully funded libraries, with wide open gardens, […]
WriteTogether Reflection: Week Twelve
One day I will be able to close my eyes and dream ofA beautiful worldA peaceful placeWhere threats and news of warAre just as imaginaryAs bubble gum elephants and blue snozzleberry One day I will awaken from my sleepAnd have had enoughMorality will not be connected to what I eatSafe and adequate housing will belongTo every adult humanJobs and careers […]
WriteTogether Reflection: Week 11
The first week of the year seemed to drag on for about ten thousand years. Maybe it was because it was a short week after such an intense few months, or because we were on day eleventy-seven of sick child, this week just seemed to last forever. The prompts were a welcome break from it all and I kind of […]