A Bit Foreign
"I became more and more comfortable just being myself, a kind of mongrelized, hybridized, weird sort of character…What I started to...
How did I do it?
"Where are you? Where are you, little girl with broken wings but full of hope? Where are you, wise women covered in wounds? Where are...
Abandoning False Hopes
"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to...
Unlearned and Learned
“Search your heart and see. The way to do is to be.” Lao Tzu “Staci, it is the difference between the unlearned and learned” he said when...
Am I Lost?
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau “Staci, you must try a matatu (in Kiswahili, “bus”)...
Am I Sleeping?
“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club For a small percentage of folks who are taking the...
I Remember
“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think...
Hope in Kakuma
Our paths never cross and yet there is a longing for her. When we are quiet she returns. She leaves just as quickly as she returns. She...
Refugees Must Be Apart of The Solution
The solution is not to "integrate' them into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become "beings...
Perfectly Born
“It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at...