variations of the word uprooting

as a toddler these chubby set of tiny toes were buried in brown cake of forest's earth, as the plump fingers reach out for blood-red wild berries, as a student these leather-covered soles wandered through cemented schools, universities, as the mind gulps data after data, oh so, committedly, as a two-decade lady these desperate feet…

6 Lessons I Learned from Little Fighter, Chika Jeune (perhaps a book review)

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by  Mitch Albom Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought…

A Look Back to Move Forward

It's almost two in the morning, I am supposed to be sleeping, probably paddling through the river of dreams this night has to offer. My eyes are sleepy, my body at less than 5% of mortal battery, still I get up, still I write. The soul would never let this wee hours --- when the…