Raindom Thoughts

This is not about one woman. This is about what 500 years of spiritual and cultural starvation looks like when it meets a ring light and a wifi connection. This is about the grandmother’s kitchen being replaced by a comment section. The elder’s wisdom being replaced by a highlight reel. The ancestral ceremony being replaced by a live stream. This is about us. All of us. Still on the journey back to ourselves. Still sometimes reaching for the mirage because the real water feel

There is a moment that has been finding me lately, quietly and without warning, in the unhurried space between getting ready for the day and actually beginning it. I stand at the mirror, and I look. "How did it get so late so soon?" Dr Seuss Not with the harsh, inventory-taking gaze I was taught. The one that scans for flaws and measures what is missing. But with something softer than that. Something that took me most of my life to find. A kind of slow, wondering tenderness t