The world is an amazing and magical place. A year and a half ago I heard the call to go to the Parliament of the World’s Religions . Then through a good friend, I was asked to be on Panel doing a Workshop on Intersectionality. I was not even familiar with the word.
Over the next year, I met with Gina Martin, Marie NazonLettie Tatheia SullivanLiz Kelly , and we worked together on Intersectionality or how we all see the world through our own lenses of gender, class and color. They recommended that I read My Grandmothers Hands Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem so I did.
Resmaa’s book is one of those books that you must read very slowly letting the words percolate and simmer.
It is life changing. Paradigm changing.
One thing led to another, because this is the way the world works. You follow your inspiration and say yes, and a door opens and another and another. And I find myself taking a contract to help Black Farmers fill out a tedious, lengthy application on a U.S. Department of Agriculture Discrimination program. Black Farmers of America
The stories I have heard over the past month and a half. I cannot even begin to tell you. I will be forever changed. I am forever changed each day.
Stories of fortitude and strength and character and love.
We did an Outreach program in Selma, Alabama where I stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge where in 1965 history was made.
They said Enough.
And the human race grew up a little bit.
We are at another fork in the road. And it is fitting that the contract should wrap up the day before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King day.
“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.” – MLK
What world are you building? Sign up and march next weekend Women’s March because the time has come to stop treating people, animals and the Earth as commodities to be used and dominated.
Don’t give up on the world. The majority of the people in it are good and want to be good and want their neighbors to have enough as well, no matter who they are.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – MLK
