Visiting a Feeding Scheme in Cape Town #makingachange #nonprofit #feedingscheme #soupkitchen #feedingthecommunity

We need to clean up this river #makingachange #nonprofit #pollution #litter #illegaldumping

Some images of the dirtiest river in South Africa #westerncapegovernment #illegaldumping #pollution #nonprofit #makingachange

Speaking to a Student from the Eagles Rising Academy during our Cleanup today #westerncapegovernment #illegaldumping #pollution #nonprofit #makingachange

Look at what we took out of the river today #npo #nonprofit #litter #pollution #soetriver #makingachange

This is what neglect looks like #nonprofit #npo #litter #makingachange

Take a look at the dirtiest river in South Africa #nonprofit #makingachange #npo

Be honest, would you take a sip from this river #westerncapegovernment #illegaldumping #pollution #nonprofit #makingachange #tiktoksouthafrica #satiktok🇿🇦

Would you drink from this river? #nonprofit #helderberg #makingachange

Can you believe the state of this River? #npo #nonprofit #pollution #makingachange

How can a river be this polluted? #pollution #makingachange #npo #westerncapegovernment #illegaldumping

Just one of the many people we met during our time making a change in South Africa #makingachange #nonprofitstories #homeless #southafrica

One of the people we met during a feeding in Cape Town #makingachange #southafrica #nonprofitstories #fighthunger

Speaking to a homeless woman #makingachange #southafrica #nonprofitstories #fighthunger

Some recent images from our feeding out in Blackheath with the Standiwe People Solutions NPO #makingachange #nonprofitstories #feedingschemes

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

#BeginToImprove #ImproveTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #MakingAChange #NeverTooLate #BeTheChange #UNIFY

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"The Secret of Change is to focus all of your energy,not on fighting the Old, but on building the New."

#mentalhealth #mindfulness #chronicallyill #chronichealth #chronicpain #disability #disabled #change #buildsomethingnew #positivity #makingachange #disabilityPride #disabilitysupport #Manifesting

His Dark Materials' Daemons Have Their Roots In Mythology In His Dark Materials, daemons are animal-shaped manifestations of souls. Similar ideas exist in many different cultures.

Finally, the bit about daemons. This whole little story #MakingAChange, has been me dropping my characters into what is basically Alexandria'sLimitedKnowledgeof!AnimalHRTverse. However, I like to include daemons www.refinery29.com/en-us/what-i... in basically everything I write.

Some quick director's commentary for #MakingAChange
- The bit where Anastasia (FWIN) talks about watching the snow fall from her room and wanting to step out and explore it as a fox was based off of watching the snow fall from a condo in Queen Anne as a child

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FWIN: I love you. I never stopped loving you. I will never stop loving you.
NBLM: I know.

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NBLM: I believe you. You have my approval. I'm going to miss this version of you, but you're going to make the cutest, most adorable, the _smallest_ fox.

That's what you want to hear, right? You want my approval? I've never seen you this honest, Anastasia. Be yourself. Be you.

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FWIN: Please tell me you understand. I need you to understand. I need you to tell me you understand. I need you to try to understand. Because I need to do this and I can't do it alone. Please.

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FWIN: I was at peace, Ryke. When I could believe I was me. When I could feel myself slipping. I was me. During those liminal moments when I lost myself I was me. The right version of me. The bearable version of me. The version of me I need to be. She has to live, Ryke.

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FWIN: I have never felt more at peace with myself than those moments before sleep, after my parent's nightly argument wound down. When everyone was in bed and the insomnia had run its course. When there was nothing in me but fox. When I could practically feel my skin fall away.

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FWIN: I used to sit awake in my bed when it snowed. I used to watch the snow come down. I used to imagine what it would be like to just leave this all behind. I used to fantasize about stepping outside and feeling my feet turn to paws as they touched the powder. Of walking off.

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FWIN: I can hear everything. Everything except for that voice in my head. It's going to be silent, I think. It's going to go where Sakura, my dæmon, will go. She's going to be with me. I'm going to be with her. We're going to swirl together until we're something new & unrecognizable.

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NBLM: I want to hear it.
FWIN: What?
NBLM: Tell me what it's going to be like. To be you.
FWIN: ...
FWIN: ....
FWIN: .....
FWIN: ......
FWIN: I'm going to be so small. I'm going to be such a small fox. I'm going to open my eyes and see the world, really see, for the first time.

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FWIN: And that's the thing. I do want it. And then I realized how much. Ryke, even if it is dying. Even if that chart says " 'Death' of Human Self" at the end for a reason (and it does), I still want it. Not because I want to die. But because I need to be _me_.

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FWIN: And then it came down to, do I want it?

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NBLM: Okay, I respect that. But how does this connect with your decisions?
FWIN: Because I realized that if one of the most alive people I know could make this choice. If one of the most intelligent, purposeful people I have met could make this choice.
Then it's not dying, Ryke.