Coding Chickens & Trauma-Mitigation
Dear Everyone: I had a lengthy, commiserating missive composed for today. I wrote extensively about the impact of chronic toxic stress,...
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Kemia Sarraf
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The Light Comes...
Dear Everyone: I know it's been a minute, and I know what y'all were thinking: Now why don't she write? (don't know the reference? You're...
Kemia Sarraf
- 2 min
A reminder, and an opportunity
Dear Everyone: This edition of Cereal With Hand-Poured Milk (HPM) will be short and pointed. And although there exists the temptation to...
Kemia Sarraf
- 3 min
Ducks, Memes, and Hope In Broken Things™
Dear Everyone: I recently participated in a lively podcast where the host and I wandered through a range of ideas around wellness,...
Kemia Sarraf
- 2 min
Protect Your Bandwidth
Dear Everyone: Life has a way of teaching us the same lesson until we finally demonstrate competence. The universal lesson of now seems...
Kemia Sarraf
- 4 min
Farm Lessons: Coding Chickens & Micro-Mitigation Moments
Dear Everyone: Farm life carries a unique set of challenges and loves to remind The Husband and I that we, in fact, know almost nothing...
Kemia Sarraf
- 3 min
The Answer is Us
Pain teaches us the most counterintuitive thing – that we must go down before we even can know what up is. Suffering of some sort seems...
Kemia Sarraf
- 3 min
Wild Places Make You Earn It...
Dear Everyone: We Repeat What We Don’t Repair. The number of times I’ve recited this fundamental truth can’t be quantified. It’s a...
Kemia Sarraf
- 2 min
We're All Cracked...
Dear Everyone: A recent influx of new subscribers and site members served as a reminder that it's past time to reintroduce myself and our...
Kemia Sarraf
- 2 min
Into the Wilderness I go...
Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal with Hand Poured Milk comes to you from deep in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. ...
Kemia Sarraf
- 4 min
Wanted: Adultier Adults
Dear Everyone: Hitch a ride when you need to. Provide safe passage when you can. ~~ For the record, I am a world-class catastrophizer. I...
Kemia Sarraf
- 3 min
Dad's Village
Dear Everyone: I chose wisely when I married. (I also got a bit lucky. But we'll stick with "wise") My husband is fierce, brilliant,...
Kemia Sarraf
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ReWrite...
Dear Everyone: I had a lengthy missive written and ready for this week’s edition of Cereal with Hand-Poured Milk when a dear friend and...
Kemia Sarraf
- 3 min
ReEntry is #NotABear
Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal with Hand Poured Milk comes to you from the desk of Kelly Hurst. Kelly is a Lodestar JEDI...
Kemia Sarraf
- 5 min
Expanding Metaphors...(in the month of Re)
Dear Everyone: What happens if we connect our reservoirs? ~~ I love metaphor. Throughout the #Tridemic, one of the most frequent requests...
Kemia Sarraf
- 4 min
The Month of "Re"
Dear Everyone: I would like to formally declare June The Month of Re There are lots of Re words floating around out there right now...
Kemia Sarraf
- 3 min
Make Space for Joy
Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal With Hand Poured Milk finds us on the cusp of summer. COVID cases are steadily declining,...
Kemia Sarraf
- 3 min
SAGing Into What's Next...
"Honor the space between no longer and not yet." Nancy Levin As we enter True Spring and the hope, planning, and aspiration that...
Kemia Sarraf
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"Who Do I Want To Be?"
Dear Everyone: Stress isn’t a bad thing. In fact, stress - particularly when appropriate, scaffolded supports are in place - is central...
Kemia Sarraf
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The Legacy Stops Here
Dear Everyone: Remember how they taught you. How much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down. The legacy stops here… Melissa Etheridge ~~...
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