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How Legos helped me rebuild my foundation

Building Legos with my family helped me realize that sometimes I was the foundation, and that even though I felt hidden or overshadowed, that it was still important to fulfill my purpose.
A group photo of all of the Ninjago sets that I've built so far.

It's easy to feel powerless, like the smallest of smallest cogs in the proverbial machine of life. As a Black woman and mother to a preschooler, I've spent the past years watching people make decisions that have affected my life (for better or worse) with not much opportunity to influence how they go. The pandemic has been isolating in ways that I'm still coming to terms with, and I have

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