BleuPrint Diaries

Tag: life

  • The Field, the Dream, and the Ones Who Stayed

    The Field, the Dream, and the Ones Who Stayed

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    by

    Rowen Aster
    in

    A journal entry from the threshold of memory and becoming. There are moments when our spirits wake before our bodies do.Mine woke in the middle of the night — not from noise, but from knowing. It began with a dream.A field.Warm dirt beneath my feet.Women I recognized without introduction — some from my childhood, others…

  • The Kitchen Where I Became

    The Kitchen Where I Became

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    by

    Rowen Aster
    in

    Last night, I visited a place I hadn’t stepped into in years,but my bones remembered the floor before my feet touched it.I was in my great-grandmother’s kitchen—not in memory, but in presence. The wood creaked like it knew my name.The stove wore the scent of collards, oil, and time.And my grandmother—long gone from this earth—stood…

  • Evomé Sa’tari – The Living Manifesto

    Evomé Sa’tari – The Living Manifesto

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    by

    Rowen Aster
    in

    For GenX Women Who’ve Had Enough of Becoming What They Never Asked To Be I’m not writing this for applause.I’m writing this because it needed out.Because after 53 years of holding it down,keeping it together, doing what I thought I was supposed to do—something cracked open.And inside was me. Not the “strong Black woman.”Not the…