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Night Train to Odessa
Night Train to Odessa is a beautiful, moving, and insightful historical novel by Mary L. Grow.The author draws on her Ukrainian grandmother’s accounts of the harrowing times of the Soviet revolution and the invasion of Ukraine b...
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Native
We are all natives on this Earth Holding space for birth Keeping time at bay As best as we can. We hold the ancient vision Of what is to come The golden thread of care. We plant our feet In the ground like sturdy trees W...
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Kyla, the Weaver of the Web of Life
Once, an old woman lived at the edge of an orange desert in the far back of the Kingdom of The Butterfly People. She lived all alone. She was more than old. She was so ancient that people from the kingdom did not remember how o...
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Midwinter
Photo by Michael Krahn on UnsplashMidwinter is a gate, a portal to a new dimension where we can find hidden gold in the stillness and warm evenings with our loved ones, be they people or pets. We can also find shelter in our inner...
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The Female Human Being
“Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and misbehavior and follow in male professions. Once the uncertainty of such transitions is over it will emerge that women have only passed...
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Pain in the World
Pain has its own rhythm. It is a contraction and an extension, a gathering in and a stretching out to the limits of what is bearable. It is like being pregnant with the unknown, sometimes the shapeless, inchoate, formless abyss...
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World Mental Health Day Special
October 10 is World Mental Health Day, first established in 1992 to raise consciousness and promote understanding of mental health issues. A lot has been done but there is still work to do in order to overcome the stigma and prejudice at...
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No God Like The Mother by Kesha Ajose-Fisher
No God Like the Mother is a delightful collection of nine short stories. The theme running through them all like a red thread is the fragility and uncertainty of the human condition and of women’s circumstances in particular. Ea...
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Soaring Eagle - Creative Manifesto
I believe words can make a difference, can make or unmake a person, even a world. I believe writing and telling have power: the power to evoke, create, and give life to memory and generations to come. I believe I can make a differen...
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Imagination Is Real
We are used to the distinction between reality and imagination. What can be experienced through our senses is bound to be real, while all that is subtle or conceived through our feelings and mind is said to be merely imaginary. Yet, eve...
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