Scripps Sunday- Alaska Edition #30

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 This is for you! (a poem by Kaitlin Curtis) 

Healer 
We touch
each other’s
souls because
we are stardust,
kissing the night
sky with every
word put to the
page.

When we think 
we can’t find
the way, those
stars light up,
telling us where 
to go, singing us
back to sleep
after the long,
hard journey.

Kiss the stardust
of your belonging,
hands over your heart,
Healer tattooed there,
a word that keeps
you safe so that you 
always remember
exactly who you are.


and this! 
from 10 years ago in Kenya from your journal: 





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