Friday Reads, Women’s History March 4

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Here are this week’s reads, from my desk to yours! Enjoy

Shared Last week and again this week as our world needs kindness more than ever! Love this one!
Just love this illustrated speech. It is great to have it come to life, easy and informative for children and adults.
Beautiful content, graphic novel with teaching guide to help you navigate and share with students.
Beautiful stories about women scientists who have shaped our history.
Another graphic novel about real superwomen in our world and history. Wonderful read, sparks great conversation.
Beautiful poetry by a wonderful woman author, Yoland Sealey-Ruiz, speaks into the soul.

Excerpt from Love from the Vortex, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz.

The Movement of Me (an excerpt taken from 49-52)

Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz

I have changed. 

There is no possible way 

I can remain the same

after sharing time and space 

with you.

Never in my life’s history 

have I experienced 

    the meshing of worlds

       the colliding of spirits

            the depth of reaching

into another’s galaxy

while (re)shaping the definition 

of my own.

Realizing that making known this shift

takes absolute grace and courage

all of which, I have learned, I have in abundance.

There was an absolute beauty in my discomfort

of having mind occupied by a stranger,

who, in record-breaking time, has become more 

familiare to me than people I have known 

all my life.

This field, this harvest of green

that I have discovered, a place that continues

to be live-giving requires I pause to ask:

 Yolanda, now exactly what have you learned….

I have learned to exhale.

I have learned peace.

I have learned that I am a farmer.

That I enjoy the idea of tilling this land

of growth and maturity for seasons to come. 

Even when storms hit and crops are threatened, 

I will harvest. 

I will tend to the land of me

because I have learned 

that I am worthy.

Know how fabulous you are. Worthy of all the good. May you find words, books to nourish your soul. Love to all!

Best,

ML

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Literacy enthusiast, reading specialist, PhD, adjunct professor and most important single mom of two extrodinary humans who have flown the nest. This is my fun, writing about reading and all things literate.

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