How To Let Your Kids Go……

The waves of redemption from his nine months gone…hadn’t even hit me yet. The shock.  That his face. Was in more than my thoughts. But a bed.  Tucked tight with the retribution.  That I am whole again. Son.  Finally home. Serving. Philippines. And helping.  Earthquake.  Landslides.  Victims. People flooded with a desperate pleading… Son answering.  The […]

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What If You Weren’t Privileged?

The lingering fumes of my neighbors garbage.  Burns alongside the road.  Waking me to another morn.  Another day.  Oh hoping.  And praying. And I sit.  Knees strong on the dust before me. First thing.  Like Abuela taught me. Praying to a God I don’t know. Nervously caressing the dangling emblem. Abuela gave me.  Strung around my […]

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The Gift From An Ice Blue Eyed Homeless Man.

I got her alone.  My one day short of six year old daughter. Swinging arms.  Holding hands.  Old and young.  Dark and light skinned. Linked. In a love just as strong as any blood ties. Walking down isle.  Laughing.  Street vendor carelessly playing. But this time…. Careless to what people see.  Loving completely.  This little one […]

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