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Forging my own path, by Isha Sesay

Meditative Story

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My Mother Is Teaching Me by Example Again

My mother suffers a debilitating stroke. The woman who is always given is now in need of care. I rearrange my life so i can be here for her. My whole life has been about forging my own path, being in control. She leaves within me a thick and enduring belief that obstacles cannot stand in my way. Processing this drastic change in her health has taken everything in me. It's sometimes exhausting work, filled with grief and resignation. What remains are the lessons she taught me my entire life bout giving. But now there's a new lesson too, that we can't control everything. That in the fall out of a disaster,. We also need care.

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