Full Bloom

By Think Like Jadie

“Full Bloom” is a coming of age story where the author and protagonist embarks on a journey using creative writing to detail how she understands the new and ever-changing world around her. She fully embraces this experience, gaining the necessary wisdom to give her curious inner-child the nourishment it needs. This is an invitation to explore this new world with the author, admiring its fresh contents and gathering the lessons it teaches to savor and digest as we continue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984587527

Think Like Jadie

Jade Sein-Colo n (Think Like Jadie) is the author of short story “Me First” as well as other works of literature. Her work largely focuses on spirituality, various emotional states, and has black feminist themes. She started writing at ten years-old and her love writing followed her into her teens, which resulted in her placing bronze in the Louder Than A Bomb Nationwide Youth Poetry Slam in 2016. She is a recent graduate of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio where she graduated with a B.A. in Communications with a minor in Spanish. Her work can be viewed in the online literary magazine “From The Margins”.

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FULL BLOOM

Think Like Jadie

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Rev. date: 07/08/2020

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CONTENTS

1 In These pages

2 Hair Poem

3 About the author

4 To my Little One

5 Descendant’s Burden

6 Toyota

7 4:43

8 To My Parents

9 No More

10 To the Woman He Left Me For

11 Belleza Persevering

12 Amor in E Flat

13 Not My Sistar

14 To My First Love

15 Pretty Hurts

16 Ambiguity

17 La Receta

18 Interrogation

19 To My Body

20 Something to Remember

21 To My Circle

22 To Me from My Depression

23 From Me to the Divine

24 False Idols

25 From Me to My Period

26 Dear Summer, I Miss You

27 God Bless The Freaks

28 Let Me Cry

29 Growing Pains

30 A Mantra of Affirmation

Foreword

Finding Tara: Our Black Aesthetic Sister

No one is free until the poorest woman of the darkest hue is free

Katie Canon, Womanist Theologian

If we listen carefully, we do not miss the spirit of the black woman. She is a black goddess whispering to your heart, reminders that what we feel makes us free. In the Buddhist tradition, there is a divine femine goddess named Tara. She is the mother of liberation. Her name means planet. Her particularly dark-skin signifies travel both "literally and metaphorically’’–otherworldly spaces– she is a mother of the universal, holding all in balance. Balance. Isn’t that just the essence of black women?

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