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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… Continue reading 6 Lessons I Learned from Little Fighter, Chika Jeune (perhaps a book review)
Over an hour. That is how long I have been staring at my screen flashing an unfinished article I should finish before the day ends. Eight tabs. That's how many articles and resources I have read to be able to start writing and get my mind do what it's supposed to do. Numerous words written… Continue reading Confessions, ramblings, and everything in between
Waiting may be tiring, but when we start thinking of what is coming, maybe we can start smiling? --- Have a blessed Sunday, beloved friends! — Photo via Proverbs 31 Ministries
Come out courage, fuel nervous mind. Come out hope, help tired soul stand. Come out joy, pick body out of bed. Come out faith, paint dull world red. Come out love, slice heart open and bare. Come out muse, spill words mouth can't say. — ©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved. Photo credit: Unsplash In… Continue reading The Coming Out
The black blanket adorned with little twinkling lights stared silently as my gazing eyes let the pregnant, salty tears fall. My feet, soaked against cold knee-high flood caused by the constant battle between the moon and the earth, are both wrinkled and chilled. Yet deep inside, my weary soul is wrapped with warmth--- warmth after… Continue reading Twinkling Sky
Disenthral: A Deten* I’ve lived so happily inside your own dark world, without a desire to be freed really. I did tried to break free against your harsh brute words but I failed like a wilted seed, badly. Mind lead weak heart fin’lly, they fought for my own worth and burned your spell like a… Continue reading Disenthral
Ephemeral: An Eleventh Power* Someone shattered your fragile heart with sweet lies, someone freed the inner demons you keep inside, someone left you without answering your whys, someone laughed hard without seeing that you cried, someone belied your efforts and many tries, someone neglected your presence in one stride, they dug hollow holes inside your once… Continue reading Ephemeral
Let your words say nothing but thanks. Let your heart beats nothing but love. — ©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved. Photo credit: Mayur Gala In response to Daily Post: Voice *My heart is currently badly broken by the death of Courageous Caitie. She is a 3-year old Filipina who has been diagnosed with a very rare… Continue reading Heart’s Voice*
“For your life to be great,your faith must be bigger than your fear.” ― Robin S. Sharma, The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story about Living Your Heart's Desires Step up, move up, leap out, jump out, though you're unsure where your feet will land. Photo credit: Quote Fancy — My sweetest thanks to… Continue reading Faith
It has been eight years since I dreamed of having a blog. Something I can call my own. Honestly, I have fears of bashers and grammar Nazis. People who might critique my write-ups. People who might oppose my opinions. Yes, it took me those long years to have the courage to publish my thoughts, my… Continue reading Agony
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