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Dear Friday,
sabrina lloyd
  • 5 days ago
  • 1 min

Dear Friday,

I turn on my computer to see there has been another mass shooting in the States. I turn on the TV and see a news special about all the...
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Monday's poem, and Suit.
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 12
  • 1 min

Monday's poem, and Suit.

A very famous one, probably familiar to you all, from Mary Oliver. It seems to fit the moment well and I love revisiting it. I seem to do...
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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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Grief
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 9
  • 1 min

Grief

I've been watching the George Floyd trial happening in the States. I know I shouldn't. I couldn't watch the videos from the day when it...
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Monday's poem
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 5
  • 1 min

Monday's poem

The Layers BY STANLEY KUNITZ I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of...
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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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Monday's poem
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 29
  • 1 min

Monday's poem

This one sinks me every time I read it, and I read it often. It's by RACHEL ELIZA GRIFFITHS, from her collection Seeing The Body. House...
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Dear Friday,
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 26
  • 1 min

Dear Friday,

I listened to something this week that has burrowed deep within me. I don't think I have ever been more moved by a podcast, heard...
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Monday's poem
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 22
  • 1 min

Monday's poem

Life is just better when you read more poetry. I have a few favorites that sit on my desk, poems I reread when I feel the need to be with...
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Dear Friday,
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 19
  • 1 min

Dear Friday,

It's been a long week. Not much sleep, news of countries closing down again, cases rising here in Kenya. It's been scary. The virus has...
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It's not mindfulness, it's rest.
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 16
  • 1 min

It's not mindfulness, it's rest.

Insomnia found me a few years ago. It comes in waves, like storms. Sometimes it is only for a night, other times it lingers for what...
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Dear Friday,
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 12
  • 1 min

Dear Friday,

Long week. It's hot in Kenya. Bone melting hot. But the long rains are coming and they bring their own difficulty so I lean into the sun...
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Welcome.
sabrina lloyd
  • Mar 10
  • 1 min

Welcome.

Wanted to say thank you for coming over to the new site! I am so incredibly excited to launch this new chapter of my life. At the age of...
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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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Finding beauty
sabrina lloyd
  • Jan 29
  • 1 min

Finding beauty

My son found this amazing grasshopper exoskeleton sitting on our steps as the full moon was rising. He showed us a turtle hidden...
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Caverns of Silence
sabrina lloyd
  • Jan 28
  • 2 min

Caverns of Silence

I read something this week that has burrowed into me. It was about health, which if you read my blog you know is a huge priority for me....
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sabrina lloyd
  • Jan 22
  • 1 min

Friday

It’s been a long time since I’ve been here. I’ve gone from the stillness of my island back to the lushness of Kenya. and then…. I am...
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Books
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 23, 2019
  • 3 min

Books

I love memoirs. As I live this crazy life, as I ride the bumps, take the sharp curves, marvel at the beauty, weather the hardships, as I...
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Kenya
sabrina lloyd
  • Apr 10, 2019
  • 2 min

Kenya

I’ve missed this space. It’s been almost a year since we landed in Kenya. It’s been almost a year and we are headed home, back to my...
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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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