No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. -Martha Beck
What She Said, October 4: Martha Beck
What She Said, October 3: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I’m going. -Jackie Joyner-Kersee
What She Said, October 2: Susan B. Anthony
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform. -Susan B. Anthony
What She Said, October 1: Dolly Parton
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. -Dolly Parton
Five Steps to Escape Catastrophe Island
Here’s the thing, Mom. You’ve been living on catastrophe island. But it’s uninhabitable. It’s not conducive to life. It’s time for you to get off the island.
What She Said, September 30: Sonya Renee Taylor
We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature. -Sonya Renee Taylor
What She Said, September 29: Harriet Tubman
I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. -Harriet Tubman
What She Said, September 28: Blair Imani
Sometimes privilege looks like being able to ignore a crisis that others are dying from. -Blair Imani
Filling a Hole and Fixing the World
Like many, I fill the hole that grief leaves with food. The night I found out that our beloved RBG died, I found myself bereft – and also craving matzo ball soup. […]
5 Small Steps to Save Our Democracy Right Now
Perhaps, like me, you’ve procrastinated your plans to emigrate to a healthy democracy. Or maybe, like most of us, you’re just queasy after years being force-fed for-profit, click-bait media that lionizes blowhards, puts scare quotes around “facts,” and sows doubt in our elections. Sometimes it seems as if the only good news is you can tune out by binge-watching Schitt’s Creek.
The Gloria Sirens 