Thank you mama

For providing strength, encouragement, positivity, humor and hope

For imparting the knowledge of spirituality and empathy

For helping me to grow and change

For teaching me to find beauty in the mundane and to appreciate the present as a gift

For being a guiding light of creativity, wisdom and kindness

For supporting my every dream and endeavor ... 

I appreciate this now more than ever, as I finish an education you did everything to provide. 

I only wish that someday I will be half as amazing a mother and a human as you are. 

I know that we will always be dancing together on the beaches of this planet, and for teaching me to dance my way down often-unpaved streets, I can never thank you enough.