Living In Perpetual Motion

Living In Perpetual Motion
What Shade of Green is your Envy?
ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
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Jan 21
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Image by Sincerely Media on UnsplashMore than ever lately I’ve found myself comparing my life to women who are my age but who chose not to have children. I realise that I’m comparing polar opposites, it would be hard to create a life more full of children than that of a single mother of four home educated young people, but because it is ‘normal’ to me I dismiss the daily labour of it and seek to…
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Writing on the female experience, race, motherhood & self-development. Columnist at The Green Parent magazine. Follow me on IG @adeola_moonsong.
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