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“The women were beautiful and our laughter loud.”

Book:Weight of Whispers

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Weight of Whispers

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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is a Kenyan writer renowned for her profound insights into the African continent and her rich imagination. Her works often explore issues of identity, cultural conflict, and gender, and have won the hearts of readers worldwide. more

“I’d never considered how some of our greatest losses lead us to choices that God uses for bigger things than we could have ever imagined. Sometimes brokenness and heartache force us into self-seclusion and fear, and sometimes they can propel us into something amazing, if we let them (pp. 251-252).”

God Loss

Book:Hope Between the Pages

Source: Hope Between the Pages

“Love's Plight" Thick headed cement brain Blind to love's terrain Absent heart casted holiday Please tailored talk plain Opportunity missed the train Cupid's arrow layed slain Love wished to stay Tears grown the stain Heart and mind complained To lose or gained It as it may One's soul soon waned Couldn't be more sane Love's plight made main Stolen kiss gone array True north sought reign Copyright ©️ Laura DeGrave”

Love Humor Loss

Book:Rustle in the Leaves

Source: Rustle in the Leaves

“Wild Geese | Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting– over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”

Death Loss

Author:Mary Oliver

“In order to gain something, you have to lose something.”