Aimee spring fortier biography of george
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Tis the season of love❤️
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I find myself looking more deeply at the power of love in my life. And in Miss M’s.
The power of loving connection… The power of loving yourself… The power of loving kindness… The power of loving community…
Recently, Miss M and I attended empowerHER‘s Actor’s Workshop with Aimée Spring Fortier where the power of love in all its forms triumphed.
Each girl was given a “Choose Happy” notebook and Aimée invited them to write their own monologues using 5 prompts. Here’s Miss M’s:
I have a secret…
I am a real author. The book I wrote is called Graceful Woman Warrior. It is about my mom, and how my family went through this breast cancer journey. I am grateful for empowerHER.
I first realized it when…
Auntie Laurie told me she put my blog in the book. I am proud of myself.
Something I learned was…
I can inspire others through my writing.
It makes me feel…
Open to heaven and the earth.
And now that I’ve said that, I feel…
That I’ve inspired more people and can choose to be happy.
Talk about the power of love…
It’s there for the taking. Each and every day. And we have the choic
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Emily BernardEmily Bernard is the author of Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, which was named one of the best books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and National Public Radio. Bernard is the winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose. Her previous works include: Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendship, which was chosen by the New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age. Her essays have been reprinted in Best American Essays, Best African American Essays, and Best of Creative Nonfiction. A 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Emily is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont. Bernard will be working on a biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen, which will be published in the Yale Black Lives series. | |
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