Category: Community

Bragging Rights

Parents of disabled children … or any child that doesn’t fit the norm … rarely have opportunities to brag about their progeny. I’m grateful to have such an opportunity and I’m going to take it! Anniversary On July 1, 2023,…

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A Shocking End to Our Adventure

The weather reports indicated that the worst of the weather was yet to come. Giant-sized hail was forecast. After arriving back at the hotel following our bus ride, Diana moved her new car into the garage under the hotel. While…

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It’s About The Bus

Rosa Park refused to move to the back of the bus. She hoped others would follow her example. And WOW, did they!! She made good trouble! The black community boycotted the buses for 381 days (12/5/55 to 12/20/56). They walked…

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In Memoriam

Sacred Ground This six-acre Memorial for Peace and Justice is definitely sacred ground … a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terror in America and its legacy. Whenever possible, names among the 4,400+ African American men, women, and…

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Reposting: Preparation

Diana and I had been talking about taking a Civil Rights tour of Selma and Montgomery, Alabama for several years. She knew it was on my bucket list. She made it possible by sandwiching the trip between visits with her…

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Oooops

What Was I Thinking? In my last post, I wrote: His (Bryan Stevenson’s) next statements were an awakening as I saw the parallels for women’s concerns: “We don’t realize that we are in the very early days of a post-apartheid/post-genocide era in…

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Coming Home

Recently I have been culling my bookshelves … reading some and passing them on … keeping the ones that become treasured friends. The words on the jacket of one originally published in 1992 and thoroughly rewritten in 1998 caught my…

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A Welcome Shift

Trust the Process … a spiritual lesson I need to learn over and over. My long months of pandemic angst yields surprising and welcome possibilities.

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Beyond Polarization

We have a lot to learn from this unconventional attorney. If I needed a defense attorney, I’d want someone like her.

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Times

The challenges of our times call for a new way of seeing and being. We need to learn new dance steps. Won’t you come out to play and learn with me?

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