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September 1 - October 8, 2025
Plants want to grow and there’s no use in trying to get them to follow human rules.”
She’s only sixteen.” “A powerful age.” “Too powerful, if you ask me,”
“As your parent, I have rights…and that includes the right to hassle you about your behaviour.”
Why does life have to always get in the way of dreams?
slept fitfully
After all that, she slept like a newborn baby – which is to say, she slept fitfully and woke several times in the night – but at least, she did get a little sleep.
taking a pancake and squeezing the juice from a slice of lemon over it and then sprinkling on brown sugar in the traditional way.
From within came a purposefulness, a deep knowing. She was still that wild little girl that danced in the rain, even though the world had done its best to beat the joy and freedom out of her. She was sick of being a victim, at the mercy of fate, and now she understood that she didn’t have to be. Not anymore. It was time to wake up and take control of her life.

