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Ruby
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family, healing the family, love, wholehearted life
Ruby
Laura Phoenix Power
family, healing the family, love, wholehearted life

It’s been one hundred nineteen days since our final stroll with our forever favorite GSP and I’m barely three weeks into my grief.

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March 20, 2025

I’ll move back into my bedroom, sometime, one day, soon, maybe by the end of the week. For now, I remain nestled in the pile of blankets, pillows, and essence of your presence for our final night with you, our beloved Ruby, who we will forever cherish as our bright, quirky, ADHD, escape-artist, loving German Shorthaired Pointer. It’s 1:35pm now, the exact time you departed on Monday, a blurred three days ago. One plus three plus five equals nine, which in numerology represents endings and closures. “Everything in its time” will always remind me of you, nine, and life’s divine timing.

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family, healing the family, love, wholehearted life
Becoming the Soil
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Becoming the Soil
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I liked it better when you were a bitch. Hearing your weakened voice showcase the cruel deterioration of your once sharp mind, I feel a deep and bothersome sadness. Damn this tenderness and compassion that I needed from you as a child, teen, and young woman for coming through me now on your behalf.

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Threading Sisterhood
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empowerment, sisterhood
Threading Sisterhood
Laura Phoenix Power
empowerment, sisterhood

“Using my voice to recognize and celebrate other women is a joy for me.” – Tracee Ellis Ross

I love everything about this quote and feel the same way! I hope you’re recognized and celebrated with exuberance, often, and with loads of love.

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empowerment, sisterhood
If I Were a Bridge
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If I Were a Bridge
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If I were a bridge, let it be a bascule bridge. Let my existence be one of connectivity and movement, uniting and releasing in all directions, in every possible configuration. Let my trauma be the counterweight that lifts the span, creating multiple paths for access, movement, reunions, and bygones.

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Namely Me
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Dream Scenes I Know by Heart
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Dream Scenes I Know by Heart
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"It was so real!" I told my daughter. Less than an hour awake, part of me was still in the dream, and I was grateful. I remained open to hear the message.

Many times in the past, the message moved through, gently blowing beyond the reach of my consciousness. My analytical, psychological approach, "thinking cap," and need to hold onto the storyline created more static than clarity. While racing to grasp my inner motion picture, my energetic vibration became more high-speed wobble than stealth. Thus, I'd unintentionally disperse the dream vibrations, sending them back into the ether.

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Birthright Denial and a Twist
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She stood at the sink, washing her hands and checking her hair in the mirror. The frizz was back, frizzing without forgiveness, showing her true origins, giving zero fucks for all efforts otherwise. The natural-born kinks were more significant than the hundreds of dollars spent straightening her locks into whiteness and conformity — no amount of water on her hands could smooth or remove the traits of her lineage. Cue the self-loathing and the forced sense of belonging she'd spent two decades creating.

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The Powers That Heal
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Triggers as catalysts for reclaiming stolen worth.

Beady-eyed, he smirks, his lips curling back from his bleachy-keen teeth; he is adorned in his vulgarity and crimes like the victor’s laurel wreath. Like a rat on the run with food, the state representative scurries away with pieces of women’s sanctuary. His words reflect utter indifference to decency, “it’s not my fault she was blackout-drunk and didn’t say no.” Criminal and bully, he’s a carbon copy of the boys-will-be-boys club of mediocre men who use their privilege to violate others.

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The Future Has Come to Collect My Kid
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family, graduation, mothering, wellbeing
The Future Has Come to Collect My Kid
Laura Phoenix Power
family, graduation, mothering, wellbeing

Mothering a high school senior is a restless wrestle between joy and grief. Timelines tread across my heart steadfast to the shores of tomorrow where my child belongs.

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family, graduation, mothering, wellbeing
Matriarch in the Mirror
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empowerment, mothering, radical love, wholehearted life
Matriarch in the Mirror
Laura Phoenix Power
empowerment, mothering, radical love, wholehearted life

In the mirror are all the women I am walking home.

I see my heroine's journey and the journeys of my ancestors. On this noble matriarch's migration, I am the captain entrusted to chart the course of totality. Our collective wholeness brings revelations, reclamations, and renewal. In the mirror, I see home. 

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empowerment, mothering, radical love, wholehearted life
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Anything Worth Holding
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I wasn't ready to receive the three zip-sealed bags you gave to me.

Your eyes reflecting intention and heartfelt affinity that your long-saved collection was essential for me to see. They held photos and artifacts of our story—not all, but mostly the best not the wounds, simply the rest.


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mothering, radical love, family
Notes on Mothering
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mothering, radical love, family

Giving into a powerful emotion or influence is defined as surrendering. There's another word that fits this description, one that encompasses this release. Motherhood. 

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mothering, radical love, family

 

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