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100 years, but is it really time to celebrate?
“they need the vote and the vote needs them”… Adella Hunt Logan
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“Together” can often feel lonely.
If I’m going to paint 110′ murals that spell out in 12 1/2′ letters “TOGETHER”, then my everyday actions should support the theory that “together” we overcome and move forward. 110′ is BIG, but I believe it is the small everyday things that truly make a difference. I’d like to share with you an article…
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Accepting you are racist. Step 1
I grew up in the city of Philadelphia at a time when schools were just beginning to be segregated. This meant the black children were actually counted in each classroom making sure a certain number was met. White was certainly still the majority but kids bussed from other neighborhoods were literally sprinkled into each classroom.…
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ENUFF… shouldn’t it be spelled that way?
I guess however you spell it the notion of not being enough has been like a sharp piece of glass I stepped on when I was about seven years old and for the next forty five years have had stuck in my foot. Some days if you were to watch me go through life you’d…
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Hope
Irene Zisblatt, Holocaust Survivor Holocaust survivor Irene Zisblatt is an authority in the field of hope. “We have to find a way, we have to try,” she says. We have to use our words to spread hope. “There is no room for hate.” When she was just 13 years old, Irene Zisblatt, along with her…
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“Love each other, forget about hate.”
Adele Besserman, Holocaust Survivor Adele Besserman and I sat together for hours. Over a cup of tea and cookies, she told me the stories of her life. I am a stranger to Adele, having met with her only once before, we had lunch so she could “get to know me” and I her. Her generosity…
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Slowdown syndrome. It’s a thing.
There is ALWAYS something to do. Correction: there is always something that NEEDS to be done. My mom had “stay at home mom” down to a science. Mondays were wash “the whites” laundry days, Tuesdays hands and knees scrub the kitchen floor, Wednesdays food shopping and dust the furniture, Thursdays strip the beds, Fridays homemade…
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Contribution
I start each day when Gracie and Nikki, our pups, belly alarms go off. Gracie ever so softly licks my face until one eye opens. She then sits and stares at me until the other eye opens, by then her joyfulness has willed my body to move off the bed. Nikki is already dancing in…
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Thank you for noticing.
5 years ago I asked you to notice, and you did. You noticed an artist who possessed a lofty idea of spreading the powerful message of a girls worth. The idea to create 50 murals in 50 states in charcoal that would fade off the wall sending the message, if you left a girl unnoticed…