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Warmth
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 10
  • 1 min

Warmth

It's hard living in two places. Both offer us something so rich and important for our souls and happiness. On the island, it's the...
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Dear Friday,
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 2
  • 1 min

Dear Friday,

Could you never tell a lie? Not even a small one. How you are, what you think, what you need. I listened to a podcast this week about...
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Between 2 worlds
sabrina lloyd
  • Feb 10
  • 1 min

Between 2 worlds

I’ve been on this expat journey years longer than a decade now. From one country to another, we move and settle only to uproot once...
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Nutrition
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 14, 2020
  • 2 min

Nutrition

It’s been a crazy time. It is a crazy time. I vacillate between calm trust, and pure anxiety. For someone already prone to anxiety this...
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Tea time
sabrina lloyd
  • Jan 28, 2020
  • 2 min

Tea time

Radical self-care. I’ve found myself gently easing into this. No big new year’s resolution. No waking up on the 1st with a whole new...
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A day in gold
sabrina lloyd
  • Dec 4, 2019
  • 1 min

A day in gold

“This World” by Mary Oliver I would like to write a poem about the world that has in it nothing fancy. But it seems impossible. ...
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Little bird
sabrina lloyd
  • Nov 12, 2019
  • 2 min

Little bird

A bird hit our window today. It’s happened before. Thankfully, not often. Our windows are so big and beautiful. So easily missed in...
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The Dragonfly
sabrina lloyd
  • Sep 13, 2019
  • 2 min

The Dragonfly

We didn’t expect to find it, so late in summer, with fall only some wind gusts away. My son caught it, called us over. We didn’t expect...
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Home is where….
sabrina lloyd
  • Oct 20, 2018
  • 2 min

Home is where….

We’ve always traveled with all of our things. Our home shut up in boxes, shipped across oceans, unloaded and unpacked, bringing our...
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Tender
sabrina lloyd
  • Jun 10, 2018
  • 3 min

Tender

I left my dog at his new home today. The lovely people who asked to take him have been waiting anxiously, their arms looking to pet and...
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Next stop Kenya
sabrina lloyd
  • May 16, 2018
  • 1 min

Next stop Kenya

In only a few weeks we will turn the page and move to Nairobi. I wondered how I’d feel when the time came to pack up and leave my island....
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Lessing
sabrina lloyd
  • May 10, 2018
  • 1 min

Lessing

I have been studying Doris Lessing for a class on postcolonial literature. I just came across her speech for her 2007 Nobel prize win and...
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An exam point-of-view
sabrina lloyd
  • May 4, 2018
  • 4 min

An exam point-of-view

I have now sat exams on three continents, in 4 countries, and am just mesmerized at how beautifully illustrative the process has been on...
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That’s the way the cookie crumbles
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 28, 2018
  • 1 min

That’s the way the cookie crumbles

I’ve lifted my head briefly from my world of stories and sniffles. We outpaced all viruses all winter and yet I am felled right before my...
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To the Pacific Northwest weather
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 16, 2018
  • 1 min

To the Pacific Northwest weather

Dear Spring, I am going need to you to try a little harder. It was a very long, dark winter and while I appreciate your tenderness, I...
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Little by little
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 9, 2018
  • 2 min

Little by little

My silence is so full. In between hands reaching for me, my every moment heavy with things to do, care for, tend to, I steal chances,...
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My House of Belonging
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 4, 2018
  • 1 min

My House of Belonging

Fires still lit for early mornings and fading light at day’s end. Skies filled with a sometimes warm sun riding on still too crisp...
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Road trip
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 27, 2018
  • 2 min

Road trip

After 23 hours of flying my husband arrived from South Sudan and then just hours later we all packed into the car to drive up the Pacific...
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The unpredictable life
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 23, 2018
  • 2 min

The unpredictable life

I love this spot where the sky meets the sea. It is our playground. It is my heaven. Every day, rain or shine, bundled against cold, or...
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Spring
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 21, 2018
  • 1 min

Spring

It’s the beginning of spring. It’s spring break. The rhythm of schooled days have turned into a tossed windstorm of bike rides, beach...
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