Who Are We To One Another
September 03, 2025
People have often heard me say that any significant social change in our society will be led by women. I sincerely believe it. Women have the emotional, spiritual, material and men...
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Reflections on belonging, ancestry, friendship, family, and becoming responsible to one another.
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6 posts in Kinship
To Be in Love
May 13, 2024
There is something to be said about “sleeping on it.” Last night I went to bed caught up emotionally in the drama of campus protests that appeared to be spiraling out of control. I...
Read moreNext to Love Quietness
October 24, 2023
Given all that is happening around us it could seem like quietness is an elusive dream. There is war in the Middle East, and in Ukraine and there is seemingly unrelenting political...
Read moreFamily Reunion
February 11, 2023
Whoever you are, whatever your name or nationality, religion or politics, whatever your ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age or skin color, wherever you live on this planet a...
Read moreAll Are Welcome Here
March 02, 2021
When I speak about the idea of Everybody As Our Own, the response is often something like “Really! Everybody as our own? Do you know what is going on out there? The police are kill...
Read moreTo my ancestors
January 06, 2021
I am your daughter. I am here because you survive. You endured being kidnapped from our homeland. Shackled and imprisoned in holding cells. You endured crossing the Atlantic packed...
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