Other Words For Home

 Now I lay me down to sleep,

I close my eyes,

quiet my mind, 

open my heart,

rest my body

and say as compline these words:

Jude’s thoughts for her new baby sister Amal in Jasmine Warga’s beautiful book Other Words For Home are my words to our neighbors at the Southern border, our neighbors in ICE detention centers, our neighbors across land and sea, our neighbors waiting to board public transport, boats, and planes to escape chaos and/or rob make a better life, the immigrant families and kids in my community, school and classroom, all our Judes out there - 

You will belong here.

You will belong wherever you want.

You will make anywhere beautiful.

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❤️❤️❤️

I give my heart, my soul, my mind, my body to make it so.