Seasons of Life
Originally published March 12th, 2023. With age, certain things become easier to see, like the way our lives move in seasons. Those...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 1 min
Healing Ain't Pretty
Originally published March 10th, 2023. Healing ain’t pretty. It forces us to take an honest look at where we’ve been and where we wish to...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 4 min
Gray Matter Revisited
Originally published February 22nd, 2023. Five years ago I sat in a hospital room gazing upon the body that brought me into this world as...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 6 min
Religious Discernment: Reflections from a Black Woman Moving Through UU Spaces
This essay was written in 2022 for the Renaissance Credentialing Program, a training program provided by the Unitarian Universalist...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 6 min
Gold From Pain
Originally published January 26th, 2023. In addition to this being a year of no for me, it’s also a year for examining my proximity to...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 4 min
The Myth of Perfect
This article was originally published on Ramblings of a Dysfunctional Homeschooler in 2015. Previous pieces from that blog will be...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 3 min
The Year of No
Originally published January 10th, 2023. Hello old friend, did you miss me? I can’t say with certainty that I missed you - elements of...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 3 min
Oops I Did It Again
Originally published May 1st, 2019 Second weddings are strange. From debating on if you can wear white, obviously, the virginal jig is...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 2 min
All Night
Originally published April 25th, 2019 Lemonade. An album that became a cultural phenomenon and changed the game. I’m not a music...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 7 min
The Feast of Life
Originally published March 1st, 2019. I was going to start this by saying it’s been a while but apparently, it’s only been about a month...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 4 min
The Slate is Never Clean
Originally published November 10th, 2018. “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”– Nicole Sobon...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 4 min
A Bitch For All Seasons
Originally published October 24th, 2018. “A bitch is what they call a woman when she no longer has the patience to deal with the...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 3 min
Seven Stages
Originally published March 19th, 2018. Grief doesn’t always come from death. More often than not grief creeps in during the everyday...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 2 min
You Can't Run Forever
Originally published February 27th, 2018. "There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight."...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 3 min
It's All Gray Matter
Originally published February 21st, 2018. Sixteen years ago I saw my biological mother for what I thought would be the last time. It was...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 2 min
Define Thy Self
Originally published October 8th, 2017. As we move through life, we all collect scars. Some more than others, but scars nonetheless. We...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 3 min
The Art of Bridge Burning
Originally published May 21st, 2017. I still read my bible. Nowhere near as much as I use to but, every now and then my fingers long for...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 4 min
A Vision For 2017
Originally published February 2nd, 2017. 2016 caught a bad rep. From dead celebrities to backward politics, 2016 just couldn’t get right...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 3 min
Open Wounds
Originally published November 6th, 2016. "Shine the light on whatever's worse Tryna fix something But you can't fix what you can't see...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21, 2023
- 5 min
Beauty, Pain, and a Movie Reel
Originally published on March 27th, 2016. It all started with a halfhearted promise. “I’ll make things better,” he said while kneeling...
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