Giovanna

Digo adeus a 2024 com mais leveza do que comecei. As bagagens que carreguei durante todos meus anos de vida agora não pesam mais pois nunca foram minhas. Me sinto mais inteira e mais certa que na incerteza de ser estou me construindo aos poucos.

Gratidão o que sinto sempre por aqueles que amo, que conheci, que estiveram comigo até aqui, dos quais tive o grande presente de prestigiar grandes momentos de alegria e ser um ombro amigo para os mais difíceis. Gratidão pelas novas oportunidades e amizades. Pelos novos sonhos sendo trilhados. Pelos meus companheiros na arte de florescer. Pelos meus alunos, dos quais aprendi e continuo aprendendo com todos os dias. Me sinto muito agradecida e abençoada. Seria isso viver?

Por anos senti um vazio dentro deste meu peito mas agora sinto a batida ensurdecedora de um canto que persistiu por tanto tempo dormente.

E ele diz assim:

I bore you in my sleep
I bore you with my tears
I gave you life
Where there’s grief there’s spite
And so I made you mine

I bore you in my sleep
I bore you with my tears
I wonder why
How can I decide
Where your fate resides?

So I give you to the trees
To the earths the skies the breeze

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Fare thee well, 2024. I part ways with you lighter than when I started it. The baggages I’ve carried through all my life no longer weighing me down for they were never mine. I feel more whole and certain in the uncertainty of being that I am building myself little by little.

Gratitude to those I love, those that have crossed my path, those who have been beside me until now, from whom I have had the the great gift of witnessing joyful moments and a shoulder to cry on through hard times, Gratitude to new opportunities and new friendships. For new dreams being pursued. For my companions in the art of blooming. For my students, from whom I have learned and continue to do so every day. I feel so grateful and blessed.

For years I have felt an emptiness inside my chest, but now I feel the deafening beat of a song that has lied dormant for oh so long.

And it goes like this . . .

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P.S. to everyone I couldn’t tag but were part of my year — thank you for allowing me to know you and love you 🤍