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i. carbon links the world over all the living things have it and stardust is the building blocks, the metaphorical legos that structures the earth and our bones we all are made of the ashes of stars you are made of stardust i am made of stardust.

ii. some people burn whether with purpose or feeling or memory or whatever else and some are burnt out leaving only charcoal and dead embers in the wake of their potential.

iii. it was around a dying campfire that my father told me the story of our family name and its ancestor the man who cut off his foot and threw it to the new lands for honor and his family’s name and it was by the glow of fading fire that i first learned my surname means dragon, a might beast of flame and fury and treasure and i was proud.

iv. coal does not become diamond coal is born of one environment from carbon and death and pressure diamond is birthed from heat and carbon in the heart of the earth we burn one, and carry the other on our bodies one clouds the sky, and the other- the other is saturated in the blood of war.

We live in a society where we kind of want to decide that one woman has to be right and the other has to be wrong. Or that one woman is good and the other woman is bad. And I think, you know, there’s room in this world for more than one fabulously dressed, powerful, smart, sophisticated, complicated woman at the table.