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Free to Be, You & Me (a Little on Privilege) | A guide to belonging everywhere

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A guide to belonging everywhere. Adventure, Whimsy and Puppies for Everyone! October 22, 2014. Free to Be, You and Me (a Little on Privilege). I just got to hear my little sisters sad voice over the phone as she mustered enough strength to tell me that her long awaited visit would have to wait until next summer. I could hear small cracks in her voice that betrayed exhaustion, and weariness. She is my baby sister, and I cannot stand to hear her cries. I don’t want to be part of a world where people ...

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What I Wish Someone Had Told Me: On (Always) Being a Foreigner | A guide to belonging everywhere

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A guide to belonging everywhere. Adventure, Whimsy and Puppies for Everyone! October 21, 2013. What I Wish Someone Had Told Me: On (Always) Being a Foreigner. 8220;You will never guess what I was asked today” he says, almost as if there’s a punch line. 8220;If you were single? 8220;No- I was asked what I did to get an American girlfriend. They thought you were American”. 8221;, “Where were you born exactly? 8221; and a large celebration (and over emphasis) of Cinco de Mayo and shady looking zarapes.

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A Long and Exhaustive List of Grievances | A guide to belonging everywhere

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A guide to belonging everywhere. Adventure, Whimsy and Puppies for Everyone! August 6, 2015. A Long and Exhaustive List of Grievances. 8220;My activism is informed by my belief in Christ…”. Jill’s voice trails off, and I think about that. I want to say. And it’s true. I believe in Christ. Goes the song. I truly do. It always comes as a surprise that I’m a Mormon. I wish so much, with all my heart to some day have a world where the children of my life can be their whole selves, face in the sunshine and no...

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Azul | A guide to belonging everywhere

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A guide to belonging everywhere. Adventure, Whimsy and Puppies for Everyone! June 2, 2016. Far From The Parenting Crowd. 8220;I feel like she will be with us, in my heart, soon. I feel it. We will keep praying for that.”. I have thought a lot on this because as part of a religious (and undocumented) community my mother was looked down for and divided because of these things, and I wonder how much of this has resulted in the things that have scarred her. I look like my mother; our faces so similar that he...

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Thankless Tasks & Wobbly Movement | A guide to belonging everywhere

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A guide to belonging everywhere. Adventure, Whimsy and Puppies for Everyone! May 21, 2015. Thankless Tasks and Wobbly Movement. I first met her in a group meeting of returnees- immigrants who had been forced to come back, whether by government or by limitations in the States. I walked into a room full of people that I did not have to explain everything about my journey to. So much was understood; it was a sequence of “what, you too? I owe a lot to a lot of people, but I do want to take a second to say ho...

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Where The Red Trees Are | A guide to belonging everywhere

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A guide to belonging everywhere. Adventure, Whimsy and Puppies for Everyone! July 28, 2014. Where The Red Trees Are. This book tho- cover painting of Shaun Tan’s “The Red Tree”. I am finding it very hard to believe that I have had a personal blog for years without writing very much about books. I am sure everyone is questioning whether I am who I really say I am and I am willing to provide proof that I am who I claim to be- so, today, I had to wear bottoms and I was miserable. Like all good book lovers, ...

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Carrying Hearts. | A guide to belonging everywhere

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A guide to belonging everywhere. Adventure, Whimsy and Puppies for Everyone! April 7, 2014. Carrying hearts. Photo Courtesy of U.S. Mexico Foundation. I think I’ve finally understood what Einstein may have meant when he spoke of relativity; this past week felt so much longer for so many great reasons- it was bursting at the seams with surprises, new friends, learned lessons, and a deeper understanding of myself. I wanted to start off by explaining one of the main things that resonated with me this week.

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Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me: They will creep up, unexpected | A guide to belonging everywhere

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A guide to belonging everywhere. Adventure, Whimsy and Puppies for Everyone! April 18, 2014. Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me: They will creep up, unexpected. I am in Cancun, and it is raining. I am in Cancun, in my childhood home, and it is raining. I am in Cancun, in my childhood home and it is raining heavily, buckets and buckets. I am in Cancun, in my childhood home, in the neighborhood I grew up in, and it is pouring down, and there are voices of children running around, screaming, happy. It is not...