Today's Encouragement: Living a self-conscious life, under the pressure of time ...

10/02/24 at 03:00 AM

Living a self-conscious life, under the pressure of time, I work with the consciousness of death at my shoulder, not constantly, but often enough to leave a mark upon all my life’s decisions and actions. ~ Poet Audre Lorde, who went through a fourteen-year cancer journey before meeting death at fifty-eight. Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep 15 to Oct 15), Audre's parents had immigrated from the Caribbean to New York before her birth in 1934.

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