@Teju Rice Greetings. Thank you and gratitude for the time, energy and space!

@James Weeks My uncle had his farm in Canovanas. As a Boriqua, I have tasted coffee but never drank coffee as a regular. I don’t like it. I live to brew it after the house is cleaned. It makes the house smell good. lol

Sending healing thoughts

My child, I did not survive so you could shrink. I carried water you will never feel on your shoulders. I swallowed words you now speak freely. I stayed silent where you get to choose. Every comfort you call “normal” was once someone’s prayer whispered through tired breath. I see your struggles. They are real. But so is your strength — and you forget that part too easily. You think you are lost. You are not lost. You are standing at the edge of becoming. Who am I asking you to become? Become the one who stops apologizing for existing. Become disciplined when it is easier to drift.Become kind without becoming small.Become dangerous to doubt.Become steady in a world that shakes. You carry more than your own name. You carry continuity. What action am I urging you to take? Do the hard thing you keep postponing. Make the call.Start the work.End the pattern.Leave what is starving you. Build what nourishes you. You are waiting for certainty. We never had certainty. We had courage. Borrow some of ours. Where do I believe you belong? Not where you are tolerated.Where you are expanded. Not where you survive.Where you build. Not in rooms where you fold yourself smaller in spaces that require your full height. Would I tell you to stay? To leave? To build? To forgive? Stay j if the soil is good and you are growing.Leave if your spirit is thinning. Build even if you must build alone at first.Forgive not because they deserve it, but because you deserve freedom. And forgive yourself most of all. You think we were braver than you. We weren’t. We were just unwilling to waste the chance we were given. Do not waste yours. Stand up straighter.Choose with intension. Love boldly and fiercely. Work steadily. Rest without guilt. And remember: You are not starting from nothing. You are starting from us.