Category: Lady Flava Speaks Her Truth
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Life| When a Simple Bus Ride No Longer Feels Safe
🌻 Seasoned SoulZ Reflection 🚍 When a Simple Bus Ride No Longer Feels Safe For almost two years, I lived just two blocks away from a bus stop where I could easily catch the #60 to work. It was simple: ride to 9th and Jefferson, transfer to the #3 or #4, and be on my way.…
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Life|Different Paths of Learning
🌻 Seasoned SoulZ Reflection Different Paths of Learning We don’t all arrive at wisdom the same way. Some are taught step by step, with clear instructions, guidance, and structure. Others are shaped by experience — learning by doing, figuring things out as they go, and building wisdom through trial and error. Neither path is better…
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Life|Have We Stopped Being Friends With Each Other? 🌻
Have We Stopped Being Friends With Each Other? 🌻 Seasoned Souls Reflections This morning, as I sat by Lake Washington with my coffee, I thought about the sound of gunshots I fell asleep to and woke up to. I thought about the dream I had, where I was at a community center and a gang…
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H&W|Calling Off: Workplace Culture & Policy (Part 2)
🌻 Seasoned SoulZ Health & Wellness Reflection Calling Off: Workplace Culture & Policy 🌻 (Part 2) In Part 1, I shared how I’ve learned to honor my health and stay home when I’m sick. It’s taken me years—and a little wisdom from the younger generation—to understand that calling off isn’t weakness, it’s responsibility. But this…
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Life|65|My Home, Seattle, WA
🌻 Seattle, My Home Today, as I sit in the quiet of my tower, I find myself reflecting on Seattle — my true home. The years I spent living in Las Vegas gave me a new appreciation for this place. I always spoke about Seattle’s beauty: the green trees, the water that surrounds us, the…
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Life|65|Seattle SuperSonics 🏀
🌻 Seattle’s Sonics: A Piece of Home Still Missing When I was a child and into my early 20s, Seattle had a basketball team — the Seattle SuperSonics. Watching the games with my family was part of life, part of home. Coming up, it felt like the Sonics were always around, always active in the…
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Life|Assassination: From Edwin Pratt to Charlie Kirk
Assassination: From Edwin Pratt to Charlie Kirk A Seasoned Souls Reflection — Lady Flava When I was a little girl, about nine years old, the world I knew changed. My father’s close friend and colleague, Edwin T. Pratt, was assassinated outside his home in Shoreline, Washington. My parents had recently shared dinner with the Pratt…
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Life|65|Speaking It Out Loud — how I make sense, then let it go
Speaking It Out Loud — how I make sense, then let it go A Seasoned-Soul Reflection — Lady Flava There’s a small miracle in saying things out loud. When I whisper the knot in my chest into words, it stops being a mysterious weight and starts to look like something I can name, hold, and…
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