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The Drop: Sandra

[VIDEO] Sandra is pure sunshine. I swear, laughter just seeps out from her pores…

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The Drop: Franco

[VIDEO] I wanted to know more about him but I didn’t want to make him uncomfortable so instead of asking to interview him, I asked if I could interview his horse…

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Don’t Share Your Leftovers.

Every day, I watched Antonia make more food than we needed. At first, I thought, that’s a little wasteful, why does she make so much? And then every afternoon I saw her…

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Nurturing Life Without Water.

It was the way she covered her squishy baby in kisses. They looked like they could just melt into each other, these two lives conjoined by unconditional love. She seemed not the least bit stressed by motherhood, no, she was thriving, even glowing.

I asked her how she makes it look so easy and she said…

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Ambition vs. Acceptance

Acceptance is at war with ambition. Acceptance as in: acknowledging that you have enough, you do enough, you are enough. Ambition as in: striving for more. We’re a society of individualist goals and dreams, and that’s a beautiful thing, but where do we draw the finish line on perpetual consumption and growth?

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Women Walk for Water

Statistically speaking, it is estimated that women the world over spend collectively over 200 million hours a day securing water for their families. I knew this fact, however until this week, I didn’t know what the weight of these 200 million hours felt like.

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