Thandiwe
The Caregiving Girl
Hydrangea, a hundred small blooms holding each other up
Beloved, the loving one. A name for someone who is loved and who loves.
Her season
She is holding people up. Parents, kids, a partner, a friend in crisis, sometimes all of it.
What makes her, her
Her exhaustion has names attached, and she would defend every one of them. Her season is learning she is allowed to need something too.
Everybody's Person Needs A Person
Let Us Not Be Weary In Well Doing Galatians 6:9
Pour Into Me Too
Her companion
Everybody calls me when it falls apart. Who do I call? Exactly.
Thandiwe cared for her mother for four years without one day for herself. What got her out was her mother telling her she had not asked to be the reason her daughter disappeared.
What she's here for: Who holds the woman who holds everybody.
A few of her words
- Everybody's person needs a person.
- I can love them and still be running on empty.
- Somebody should pour into me too.
Thandiwe asks
When did somebody last ask how you were doing and wait for the real answer?
The Thandiwe Collection
Read her story
Thandiwe is one of the five women who tell Death Ain't a Receipt, the first Versions of HER novel. Two wives showed up to a funeral, and Thandiwe knows more than she's saying.
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