Ema H

News App

Your New Notifications:

"World Food Programme stops aid for 650,000 women and children due to lack of funding"

"Israel shares, then deletes, condolences over pope's death"

The ancient Greeks believed that names held power. I happen to agree. 

I don’t remember when I first discovered this truth. It is something I feel like I have always known, since the moment I received my first name. 

Her name was Violet, 

but she always wore yellow. 

I spied her from across the room as I hesitated in the sun-framed doorway, and she was beautiful. 

“Mama, will you tell me my story again?” Asks the little girl in my lap.