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I tell you because I love you:💎💕 __ ✨This world can be so busy, so unkind, so distracting and noisy, so unjust. Amid all of it, you’ve got to draw from your well to refresh and recover. You’ve got to find clever but meaningful ways to keep your head up and your hands on the proverbial plough. __ ✨My strategies might be different from yours. Mine are prayer, time alone, intentional withdrawals from social media (I call them SMHs - social media hiatuses), time well-spent with the ones who love me the most - my man, my children, my writing. Of course, writing! My writing is my balm. __ ✨Another less sophisticated strategy for me is finding that signature item that speaks personally to me during any given season. That signature item, when worn, should remind me of my power and of the purpose of the season. That item does not upend the difficulty altogether, but rather, reminds me of the season’s instructiveness and of my ability to endure it. __ ✨My signature item is this pair of burnished red maroon-ish cowgirl boots. The acts of putting on these boots, then wearing them however the hell I please, reminds me to craft my own narrative, to be unapologetically who I am, to walk boldly and mercilessly in my power. (Yes, mercilessly. Take no prisoners. Take no shit.) You best believe these boots were meant for walking, for kicking injustice and/or despair squarely in the ass. These some truth-telling boots, y’all. These boots keep me grounded. I press the earth a little more firmly in them. I cross my legs more confidently in them. I know I stand out in them, for God did not create me to conform to this world or be like anybody else. These boots make me feel powerful, like a superhero with a secret power. They even make me feel taller, giving me an ever so slight view from the top. These boots make me feel like a #badass, all 61” of me. (Sorry to disappoint those who may have thought I was taller.😂) ___ ✨What’s your signature item and how does it make you feel when you wear it? Perhaps you can share a picture and your story. Please do tag me so I can be sure not to miss it. ___ #RedBoots #Boots #Balm #FindingPeace #Writing #Healing #Seasons #Quietude #TimeAlone
Enjoy some jewels I shared with E @praywithourfeet on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pray-with-our-feet/id1483840072. (Go to Podcast app/ find Pray With Our Feet, check out epi #3) ✨If you profess to be a person of faith, then your faith must be active in the work that you do! There’s no getting around it. Love is indeed a verb. Love should see about the heart of the #leastofthese. Your #faith then has to be about #wholeness, about healing, about repping for justice for those who are marginalized or disadvantaged by systemic oppression. Somehow you must stand in the gap for others. 💓I insist that “My activism and words have to be shaped in love...” ✨ Let E tell it: “Such a beautiful conversation with writer, teacher, activist and woman of faith Avril Somerville ... She is the author of A Journey of Life on Purpose, a book of personal essays and poetry, and a forthcoming novel.”✨ In this episode, E and I dive into “the power of our words, and how understanding that power helps us to walk in liberation.”✨ Take a listen (link in bio) because we unpacked a trove full of brilliant treasures and timeless pearls for living a life of serving in our gifts, purpose, and ultimately, in #love. #praywithourfeet #community #love #WOCWriter #blackwomenwriting #writerslife #artivism #mindbodyspirit #wholeness #servantleaders #walkingbyfaith #thebelovedcommunity #womeninpodcasting #justice #faith #theleastofthese #mothers #writers #BlackWomenWriting #PowerOfLanguage #PurposeLiving
Something my daughter #Butterfly drew when she was twelve. #InsistOnSisterhood #Sisterhood #Daughters #RaisingDaughters #Artists #YoungArtists #ArtistInResidence #PortfolioBuilding #Sisters
“Death, oh where is your sting?” #Equinox #Poetry #ElizabethAlexander #language #poem #writer #poet

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