Sometimes the most powerful words are your own, recited back to you. Lily is a…
Marking Milestones
Life is good, as it should be at 17. But it’s also scary and uncertain at times.
She wants to save the world, but she’s starting to see how difficult that might be. Yet she still wants to do her part, so she created her own internship with the Global Immersion Project. Read what she writes about crossing the San Diego/Tijuana border: http://globalimmerse.org/embers-silent/
Power of the Journal
Journals provide a reliable path to revisit childhood; they reinforce the relevance of childhood and family as our children grow into adults.
Yesterday’s Dress
Sometimes the problem with being feminist is how fierce it makes you, how everything becomes a symbol of a dominating patriarchal society…Seeing my dress laid out by his hands brings a wash of tenderness over my fierce resolve.