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Benivia Lee's avatar

This is so you...sweet, tender, full of gratitude + still a bad ass!

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Badiana Badio Eckstrom's avatar

🥹💐 giving you your flowers 🌺. Thank you for seeing me.

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Julia Blues's avatar

Such a beautiful post on self-reflection and appreciation of where and who you are inside this very moment.

And thank you for the shout out! 💕

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Badiana Badio Eckstrom's avatar

Of course!! Had to spotlight you!! I appreciate you and this comment made me go back and reread this post so I am grateful for that too.

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Julia Blues's avatar

Oooh, I love a good prompting to reread, or as the one sermon I enjoyed said, “Look again.” Hope looking again at what you wrote confirmed some things for you. 🫂💕

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Badiana Badio Eckstrom's avatar

🤗 🫂 🤗

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Tabitha Blair's avatar

The joy of transition is the loss of expectation and the freedom of simply BEING.

This read was like sipping on a refreshing tea.

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Badiana Badio Eckstrom's avatar

The freedom to simply BE is all I’m chasing for the rest of this lifetime and real talk I don’t even have to chase it anymore. It here. Ready for me to grab my tea and sip coolly and calmly on my porch.

I love and appreciate you so hard! Thank you 🙏🏾

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Lovette Jallow's avatar

Heart click of course always 🩷

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Badiana Badio Eckstrom's avatar

I appreciate you immensely 🙏🏾! ♥️ 🕰️

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Lovette Jallow's avatar

I am getting better at my comment shyness ✨

I don’t know it helped the algorithms here 🩷

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Badiana Badio Eckstrom's avatar

The effort and thoughtfulness 💞

The algorithm has been SO OFF FOR ME LATELY!! Real talk: I have been scarce on Substack as of late. Focused on those in person interactions/ones sliding into my iMessages but dang it seems extreme.

So thanks for overcoming your comment shyness via my publication. Really means a lot to me!

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