she had no rhythm, but danced with everything in her. and when she felt a song in her heart, there was nothing stopping her from singing at the top of her lungs. when she was in the ocean, she was at peace.
she wrote beautiful prose for her eyes only. she could make your heart skip a beat with just one glance. her laugh could turn your bad days into good ones. if she was sad, her mood could tint your good days with melancholy.
you were but a moon in her planet's orbit. she was the natural center of everything. always was. she could make any place feel like a home. she brought beauty to everything she touched, and yet sometimes she felt weighed down by circumstance.
she had a power and a grace and a fragility all at once.
she was my mother. jazmine's mom. robin and christian's mommy. on her birthday, my mind is filled with thoughts of a woman who was flawed and brilliant and fiercely beautiful. when we remember her let us remember everything she was. that's how she would have wanted it.
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