分类目录归档：resilience
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So I'm sitting across from Pedro,
the coyote, the human smuggler,
in his cement block apartment,
in a dusty Reynosa neighborhood
somewhere on the US-Mexico border.
smile
don't forget to let daddy see you smile
that's what i would hear for months at
the age of four from
the time the sheriff took my dad away
until the time the probation officer
said it was okay
fo
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the naughtiest didn't go so well for me
the 90s were a blast the 2010s
bit dubious and then we all got 20 20.
it's delivered us challenges
anxieties grace and losses we did not
anticipate
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hi everyone my name is ella and
i am the administrator from congress in
china schools
so unprecedented events are inevitable
and can arrive at any moment you might
be walking into the shower of exhaus
i read this quote recently that said
we are our grandmother's granddaughters
how many of you grew up closely with
your grandmothers
if you did you might have grown up kind
of like me
i grew up watchin
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imagine you're a boxer in a boxing ring
there is a chaos everywhere your
opponent
is about six feet and weights more than
230 pounds
he's sitting in th
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i first thought of this topic in october
of 2019.
back then no one had heard of coven if
you were to mention it you would have
thought it was some bad rock band or
maybe a slang term
n
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thank you
thank you i thought i was supposed to be
levitated by a group of
men kind of like well hamurai kerry does
it
on stage well
i'd like to begin with a land
acknowledgement
i acknowledge
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let's start with a thought experiment
imagine romeo saying to juliet
oh juliet my soul calls out for you
the sound of lovers calling each other's
name through the night is the sweetest
sound
l
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imagine
a nine-year-old little girl left home
all alone
no cable no cell phone
scared to death every time there's a
noise outside
she's wondering if a stranger is looking
to break i