"In the coming week(s), in the month of August, motherhood takes on a powerful meaning for me as I’ll be birthing in more ways than one. For one, there is the birth of a child, for another, there is the birth of my mother’s story. Each has been incubated inside of me, held in love and deep trust.
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Both have been a most divine journey of listening, of introspection, of showing up through fear, through tears, through the ebbs and flows, saying yes to it all.
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Next week, I get to share at least one of the births with you — that of the book — a four-year journey of listening to and penning Dora’s Story in a book titled - ‘I Am Because We Are: An African Mother's Fight for the Soul of a Nation’.
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I cannot wait to share in and with you all that is to come.
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#IamBecauseWeAre #Motherhood #Birth"

mariahAngel:
Black beauty.
She reminds me of Lupita Nyong’o.