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a few days away from the eve of my birthday and all I'm thinking about
Hi friends,
 • Sherisa de Groot
a world full of blinders
Too many people make a transcontinental move to 'escape' the dangers of America, only to ignore everything in the land they now call home.
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white noise, black bodies
Four hundred years of anticipation. Black women are the strong men.
 • Sherisa de Groot
What part of you still needs excavating?
On feelings and instruments.
 • Sherisa de Groot
Tell Me: Ear worms
I know many of us have our own ear worms that we still recall at the drop of a dime, but what are the ear worms your kids have given you/cursed …
 • Sherisa de Groot
Tell Me: How are you putting yourself first this week?
It’s Wednesday.
 • Sherisa de Groot
Tell Me: Just how invisible are you?
Welcome to the first real edition of Tell Me!
 • Sherisa de Groot
Ten. One
Updates, a new way of being, consistency, presence.
 • Sherisa de Groot
a palace made of smoke
a lamentation. a call to arms. a call to heart. a promise.
 • Sherisa de Groot
A Home Within Myself
A Home Within Myself
How to find and love the home within yourself. Essays & conversations on love, parenthood, identity, culture, midlife, relationships and Blackness from a first-generation American elder millennial immigrant.
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