It is very difficult to learn how to love people who hurt you, and hurt you repeatedly, and rarely change, if ever. It is difficult because all we can see or feel in our injured state are our own wounds. Continue reading Peace On Earth Begins In Me
Carnal fasting He was running everywhere. He was running from home to school, running from school to his afterschool job, from his job back home. Running while wearing extra clothes, a sweatsuit under a sauna suit. Or was the sweatsuit … Continue reading Empathetic Fasting
An excerpt from The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate We don’t know what we don’t allow ourselves to know. But when I began to know—after I’d picked my jaw up off the floor enough times to wonder … Continue reading Imagining My Way In
The dictionary defines Emotional Intelligence as the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. As human resources professionals, we have been trained to express high emotional intelligence. EI (as … Continue reading Being Actively Empathetic
Who gets to decide what law and order looks like in our Country continues to be questionable as we see disparities in the implementation. Sir Robert Peel was the founding father of policing in England and his concept was brought … Continue reading Law and Order for Who?
My great-grandmother was generous to a fault. The stories of how her house was a haven for needy people abound. My grandmother inherited this value, and I grew up never knowing who would show up for lunch at her table. … Continue reading What we model…
I love you. I have loved you since before I could write my own name in either cursive or print. As a child, I publicly waxed poetic about you. I pledged allegiance to you every morning. I sang songs to … Continue reading “Of Thee I Sing”
I hold each kernel between my fingers. The seeds were planted close together, and, in order to reap the benefit of each new start, I must separate the small plants. Because they are so close, very little dirt adheres to … Continue reading The Ongoing Work of Growing Things
This country was built on genocide and chattel slavery. For over two hundred- and forty years people of the African diaspora worked for free to build schools, roads, businesses, etc. This land was built on the back of free labor, … Continue reading Give Us our Reparations
