We’ve always heard stories of the grandmother’s resilience;the stories of walking miles to school, cooking dinner in an outdoor fire space, or making a small amount of currency go a very long way. I have the pleasure to inform you that there are modern-day “sheroes” like that, who are walking amongst us every day—women like you and me who choose each day to rise above our circumstances.
We may have had times when we became entangled under our circumstances. Alternatively, we may have felt the magnificence of standing on a mountaintop that we spent years climbing. We may have also felt the weight of being crushed by our own chaos, or by a dream that didn’t pan out the way we intended. Maybe we are nursing the wound of a love that didn’t manifest the way we imagined, or we are seeing the nightfall once more upon some deep-seated distress.
Some of us may have freshly inherited pain, with no idea of how to combat this soul-shaking violence that crept up in our space and left us with deep silence, or left us emotionally inflamed. We have danced to the best rhythms, and we have fallen hard on the sharpest floor. Whatever our situations and whatever spaces we may have found ourselves jammed in, we are dynamic women.