Tag: growth

Shedding layers

I am learning and I am changing. I have shed probably a dozen layers of ignorance and misunderstandings in just the last 5 years, and yet I am still learning something new every single day – shedding more layers.  I am a white person, protected by my whiteness. I still benefit from white supremacy.  I

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When a BFF is just a FF

I am just a few months over 40 and recently did some self reflection while stoned in my sister’s pool. I realized that in my 40 years, I have been blessed with a long list of friends whom I always referred to as my BFFs (best friends forever). There were ones from my childhood that

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