What is Your Life’s Blueprint? -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Shortly after my youngest son turned two years old, I began to contemplate on the trajectory of my life. I love being a wife and mother, for they are two of the most fundamentally pivotal roles in life. I simply felt lack of success in personal endeavors.

I coincidentally stumbled across a YouTube video that contained footage of Martin Luther King, Jr. giving a speech to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967, six months before his assassination. The title was, “What is Your Life’s Blueprint?” From a young age, Martin Luther King, Jr. has consistently been an enormous inspiration, but I was not familiar with this particular speech. Read More

Worthy

The vast ocean and rising tempests,
have commanded each voyage of my life.
Every wave of doubt and insecurity,
led my anchor further and further away.
Until one day,
I arrived at a peculiar island. Read More

Broken

Broken, I am broken.
Helplessly observing fragments of myself fall to the ground.

Broken, I am broken.
The remaining edges pierce my heart’s domain. Read More