Photo: Sol Aramendi

I thank you, Elizabeth Ridley, for introducing me to this powerful poem that speaks so much to me here and now at this very moment

Last week I graduated from The Interdependence Project as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. I thank each one of my teachers, my classmates and the anonymous angel-donor who made it possible for me to attend this yearlong program. May you always be blessed.

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BY LUCILLE CLIFTON

won't you celebrate with me

what i have shaped into

a kind of life? i had no model.

born in babylon

both nonwhite and woman

what did i see to be except myself?

i made it up

here on this bridge between

starshine and clay,

my one hand holding tight

my other hand; come celebrate

with me that everyday

something has tried to kill me

and has failed.