Sabrina Lloyd

Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? A dearest of my heart, a dear dear friend who knows all of my secrets (shhhhhh) told me today I seem so strong in these posts. Am I this strong woman on the mountainside? Am I the scared woman under the bed in Uganda? I am all of that. I am all of this. I am all of me. I am the woman you see at the store with a smile on her face and a longing in her heart. I am the child with a dream to make it somewhere, somehow, some way. I am the mother h

As spring time approaches and the world around us wakes up, I am starting a new ritual  with my children. A few times a day we have to stop and pay attention to our senses. What do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel? What do you smell? At dinner we take a moment to close our eyes and just focus on what we taste. In this crazy world of too much information and so much to do and so many things coming at them, getting ready to come at them, I want to give them a foundat

What do you see when you see us? What do you see when you see someone? We make a narrative. Create a life. Fill in lines to a story we write, from our perspective, from our vantage point, clothing the person, the persons in our garments, to fit our own story of how life works. Heard too many times in Rome: “Oh, is that your daughter? That your son? Are you one of those women who couldn’t get pregnant so you adopted and then you had a miracle pregnancy?” How can I answer? How