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My Sunday 'To Be' List

My Sunday 'To Be' List

By Stacey Lindsay
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I strive 'to be” better than me. I grow 'to be” stronger than the trees. I would love 'to be” taken more seriously. I fight 'to be” the one who turns the key to open and true honesty. I want 'to be” the guarantee that we can see a way to be free. I live 'to be” the synergy so that I can feel Mother Earth's rhapsody. I rise 'to be” the remedy of social inequality but first, would someone please, please relieve these pains in my knees.

Stacey Lindsay

Stacey Lindsay is a journalist covering women + society, and an editor at The Sunday Paper. Her first book, BEING 40: The Decade of Letting Go—and Embracing Who We Are (The Open Field/Viking Penguin) is available for pre-order.

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