Alchemy: Word by Word | Shauna Rae | Substack

What bagging groceries taught me about forgiveness

Ancestral wounds run deep

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The goddesses whose rage still lives in our bones

Since the pandemic, the more I’ve learned about misogyny, patriarchy, colonization, capitalism and white supremacy, the more I cannot unsee it.

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An overflowing pail eventually leaks

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Feeling when you never learned how

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Letting the skin of 2025 fall away

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