CELEBRATION OF THE LIGHT

In honour of my Grandmother I would like to celebrate her life. My Grandmother was brought into my life to demonstrate the love that I never received from my biological parents as she represented a guardian, parent, friend, and mentor. Throughout my existence, she enabled and allowed me to acknowledge that biology does not constitute or determine family, to see that women can accomplish anything they set their mind to with innovation, imagination and ingenuity, and that with patience and time one learns to evolve, love, trust, and open their heart. She anchored her light in all situations and navigated turbulences with ease and grace while extracting fundamental lessons to enable and foster forgiveness and inner-peace. Her love, compassion, patience, understanding, guidance and nature made her a defender, protector, and keeper of our generational roots, which instilled many generational wisdoms, experiences, and lessons. Through her existence, my adopted Mother and I learned the value of love, emancipation, sovereignty, fundamental freedoms, historical trajectories of our ancestors, patience, and leading from the heart in all aspects of our lives with respect, responsibility, and care.