Author: Reena Saxena

Reena is the host of Reena’s Xploration Challenge

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People feel brave or safe, when they know there is a network with them, that will stand by them. Let us be that network, be that source of strength to someone who needs it.

PROMPT #187

Well, it was a long write-up. But that quote is the prompt.

We don’t need you to make us feel safe, because you made us feel brave.

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Strong hand protecting and shielding from harm 

Not just her own children but those too that are given in her care

Every morning she gets up to face a day full of peril

And changes that day into a day full of possibilities 

For those little ones entrusted to her care and guidance 

Even when the world was full of dangers of sickness 

She and thousands like her showed up at work

So that their charges…

I never felt unsafe as a child and I do remember doing Duck and Cover drills under my desk at school during the Cuban Missile crisis part of the Cold War.  My parents always lived in safe neighborhoods and I don’t remember that much crime being close by me, so I guess I was blessed.  For a good portion of my life, I lived in South Plainfield, New Jersey and I always felt safe there.  Plainfield, the city just north of me had riots in 1967 and it was just one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States that year.  This riot was a series of racially charged violent disturbances that occurred in Plainfield, and it mirrored the bigger riots that took place in Newark.  A fight broke out at a local diner, The White Star and the next night outside agitators came into Plainfield to provoke more violence.  Rioting and looting occurred and Molotov…

Inspired by Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Happiness & Reena’s Exploration Challenge #186 – We don’t need you to make us feel safe, because you made us feel brave.

always cursing the heavens
while life constantly threw itself at us
but yet
despite the struggles all around
the misfortunes endured
we found our way back to happiness
somehow grateful for the experience
and the lessons taught
the grief of loss
showed us we could endure
the reverent conversations with mother nature
went something like this…

“we don’t need you to make us feel safe, because you made us feel brave“
we had to be