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Wise Words


Dear Diary
My digital diary has a feature where they send notifications or email with reminders of entries that you made on the anniversary of the...
Dionne Mills
Apr 251 min read
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Quality over Quantity
On one of my first days back to a full work schedule I was chatting with a colleague of mine. We were discussing our Christmas holiday...
Dionne Mills
Jan 202 min read
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Wise Words- Hope, Hopelessness, and Despair
I wrote this in March of 2022 and it sat in drafts. I don't know why I never posted it, but it is too good to not share---------- I...
Dionne Mills
Jan 25 min read
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Dear Diary
I do not do New Years resolutions but I do a lot of periodic reflections, which are often triggered around milestones. The other day I...
Dionne Mills
Jan 13 min read
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Wisdom from our elders
One of my patients asked me the Monday after the election if I was glad that I was here and not in the US right now. I gave her a...
Dionne Mills
Nov 16, 20243 min read
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Renewal in the silence, and what I do not owe
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been disconnected from social media for about a month and a half now. The other day I briefly...
Dionne Mills
Jan 5, 20243 min read
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Oceans
Me on a beach in Trinidad I have been craving the ocean since the moment my family moved us from Trinidad. Lakes could never cut it. I...
Dionne Mills
Dec 28, 20233 min read
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Rest and liberation
During our three-day weekend trip to Russell, Northland, I indulged in reading a book that had been high on my list after watching and...
Dionne Mills
Mar 13, 20232 min read
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Another chapter in my lifelong immigration story
New Zealand is a country that relies on skilled labor from overseas. The government grants various visas to skilled workers in a myriad...
Dionne Mills
Mar 5, 20232 min read
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My Faith Journey: The work of preventing White Supremacy from stealing my trust in God
I have been out of the United States for almost 18 months. During that time I have realized that a large part of my acclimation process...
Dionne Mills
Jan 29, 20235 min read
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