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Sitting on a Miracle
Sitting on a Miracle

Circa age three, my Great Grandmother Lucille taught me this rhyme and how to pump my legs to use our backyard swingset. This Thanksgiving offered a full-circle moment to that earliest memory.

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Authenticity, Brave Tutu, Christmas, Courage, Everyday insight, Family, Genuine, Holiday Perspective, Holidays, Stepping forward, support, ThanksgivingRebekah ManleyHolidays, Holiday perspective, Authenticity, larger than life, authentic, Christmas, Christ's birth, miracles, sitting on a miracle Comments
Handwritten by Guest Author Jacob Cramer
Handwritten by Guest Author Jacob Cramer

Every year, my grandma writes me and my brother Chanukah cards. They’re personalized, filled with love, and usually also filled with gelt: chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil when we were younger, and a small bit of money today. This Chanukah, her card was just what I needed as I stepped off of a rollercoaster of a semester.

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Chanukah, Writing life, Sign Holders, love, letters, Holidays, Holiday Perspective, Holiday, Genuine, Everyday insight, Brave Tutu, Authenticity, Guest articleRebekah ManleyBoom Chicka Pop, KIND granola bars, Guest post, Unsplash Comments
Swipe Out
Swipe Out

Around 11pm, I exited the highway onto a double turn lane. In the left lane, I inched out for a right on red. The truck next to me, pulling a giant trailer, followed in full force. They gunned their gas and I watched as momentum swung the trailer into my lane. I sped my VW Beetle into the opposite side of the double yellow. One car, in oncoming traffic, switched lanes…

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Authenticity, Courage, Everyday insight, Face Fears, Family, Fear, Friends, Genuine, Grief, Holidays, Holiday Perspective, Sign Holders, support, Take Flight, Tough convoRebekah ManleyChristmas, hold space, Hope Hospitality, honesty, boundaries, Communication, Holidays Comments
Hold Space
Hold Space

I circled the packed YMCA parking lot. My anxious pre-yoga pep talk did not go well: “I’m not going to get a spot and I’ll be late for class. There might not be room for me. Even if there is, I don’t want to be that person.”

I took a deep breath and kept circling.

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Brave Tutu, Christmas, Conversation, Editor's Picks, Family, Grief, Holiday Perspective, Sign Holders, Tough convo, Holidays, YogaRebekah ManleyYoga, Save Space, Courageous Conversation, hold space, Holiday perspective, Christ, take it to the mat Comments