Here’s a thought for today that was inspired by someone I met the winter of 2016 while working at a homeless shelter in the Fargo-Moorhead Community.
Let love be stronger
Posted by Jacqueline on May 22, 2017
https://justonetake.com/2017/05/22/let-love-be-stronger/
Memorial to Thorsten
These past several nights you have been in my dreams. The dreams are joyful, hopeful, full of life – just like you. And then I wake up.
I wake up asking why are you gone? You’re supposed to still be here. There are people here who need you; your friends, your family, all those kids who called you “uncle.” We all still need you.
Posted by Jacqueline on July 11, 2016
https://justonetake.com/2016/07/11/memorial-to-dustin/
Culinary Adventures
Like all of you, Facebook constantly inundates me with advertisements for all the things I need, don’t needs, or never even knew existed. However, one day as I was scrolling through the feed I saw an advertisement for this thing called Home Chef.
Now, normally I would just keep scrolling. But there was this picture of an amazing plate of food! If you’ve ever been with me to a restaurant, you know that when it comes to food, I am sold on the pictures. If there isn’t a tasty-looking well-plated meal in a fancy staged photograph, I’m not buying.
Posted by Jacqueline on June 12, 2016
https://justonetake.com/2016/06/12/culinary-adventures/
Six Days Later (03)
Jocelyn awoke surrounded by white light. It took a few blinks for her eyes to adjust. In the center of the surrounding whiteness was a dark figure. As it came into focus, she identified the figure as that of a man. Slowly, she began to make out his features.
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Posted by Jacqueline on May 27, 2016
https://justonetake.com/2016/05/27/six-days-later/
Three Days Ago (02)
Posted by Jacqueline on May 23, 2016
https://justonetake.com/2016/05/23/three-days-ago/
First Light (01)
It was a struggle to wake up. Before she could feel any sensation in her skin, she heard voices – but they seemed distant, far away. As her hearing returned the voices got closer and more distinct. At first, Jocelyn could only hear muffled shouts and the screams of a woman in great suffering. It was the shouting that came through clear first.
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Posted by Jacqueline on May 23, 2016
https://justonetake.com/2016/05/23/first-light/
Book of Kells Now Free to View Online
Posted by Jacqueline on September 30, 2015
https://justonetake.com/2015/09/30/book-of-kells-now-free-to-view-online/
My fault
Posted by Jacqueline on September 29, 2015
https://justonetake.com/2015/09/29/my-fault/
You’re selfish. You have no ambition. You’ll never amount to anything
“I’m guessing there’s a time in each child’s life where the things said are immortalized in their subconscious. Regardless of the reason they were told to me–to make me strong; to make me fight; to make me prove myself, the effect has been devastating.
My conscious mind is able to process and understand the reason, but my little girl brain that heard it still just can’t get past it. I was never beaten. I was never witness to horrific abuse. But I was told those words over and over again.”
Source: Stuff Nobody Says
Posted by Jacqueline on September 19, 2015
https://justonetake.com/2015/09/19/youre-selfish-you-have-no-ambition-youll-never-amount-to-anything/
Survivors. Digging Deep. And the Exhausting Nature of Rage.
Content note: discussion of sexual assault, rape, depression
I haven’t blogged in months. Three-and-a-half months, roughly. On Monday, I wrote about how depressed I was most of the summer, and that’s part of the story.
Posted by Jacqueline on September 2, 2015
https://justonetake.com/2015/09/02/survivors-digging-deep-and-the-exhausting-nature-of-rage/
Just One Take 