I’m glad we don’t know what a day holds, much less a year. It’s been a long year for Megan. Full of unexpected hurdles. Layer upon layer of detoxing from pathogens like fungus, viruses, and malaria. Sometimes it's harder to get the poisons out than it is to live with them.
Her hair changed color this year. From a dark brown to a reddish brown.
It's been a year of juice fasts, energy medicine, acupuncture, and fortitude.
Megan is teaching English to Somali-Bantu refugees now...people who quietly carry their traumatic past. Just like she does.
Megan lost her adolescent years. She missed her college years. But ever so slowly, her life is being redeemed. Just like Victor Hugo describes Jean Valjean in Les Misérables:
"Poverty, we must insist, had been good to him. Poverty, in youth, when it succeeds, is so far magnificent that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration."
Magnificent indeed Megan... How proud you must be Andrea to have such a wonderful, courageous daughter. Hope it's a grand birthday!
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Beautiful absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
ReplyDeleteMom, you're the best friend I ever had.
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Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteWe trust that your trials that we don't even comprehend will allow you to comfort others who also have gone through trials that likewise no one else comprehends. May your health, vitality, and compassion for others ever increase.
Very true. The quote is very Megan and you. I Love you both very much :) Thank you for writing beautiful mom, about a beautiful daughter, in such a beautiful way.
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