This young woman, amazing. Amazed at her perspective, her vision, her beauty inside and out, her...words. Her words that no no boundaries, truly. Her power, from within, deep within. Her view, her words, her vision of what can be, what will be, inspired. Never more true than now, right now, with voices like hers, her …
Category: human rights
Black History Month 2022: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali
Speakers of their truth, living their lives in outspoken, inspired form, both men were drivers during the Civil Rights era of the 1960’s. One made it further, the other didn’t. Provocative, provoking, unrelenting. Malcolm X: “Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.” Muhammad Ali: “You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you …
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Black History Month 2022: Andre Leon Talley
Didn’t know about this guy. Glad to have discovered a little about him, amazed and inspired by his fortitude, spark, and vision. 6 foot 6 inches tall, a Black, Queer Man, in a cape often times, that’s how he was introduced to me. Quite the human, quite the larger than life influencer on design, lifestyle, …
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A Year And A Day: “The Hill We [Still] Climb”
Gonna use parts of this one over the next several weeks (and beyond) -- what an amazing piece with so many insights -- but to start let’s hear the whole thing, a year and a day since Ms. Amanda Gorman shared this vision with the world... and set the tone for the way forward, forward …
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Elevate the Voices That Need To Be Heard
I came across this jazz musician and this album yesterday, listening to our local Jazz radio station, KCSM, in the San Francisco Bay Area. In lead up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, they were playing various artists with particular undertones and themes around Civil Rights, Equality, etc. The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of …
Feed the People: Last Entry 2021
Here’s how it ended up, 42nd Annual DeAnza Lions Club Thanksgiving Food Drive 2021: 7 stops, 220 families, 460 boxes of food, maybe 900 (plus) people served, about 30 Lions and Friends/Family of Lions, much GOOD… #WeServe #LionsClubs Boxes stage for packing Food Boxes loaded for deliveries Last Delivery, Watsonville Baby Strollers Turned Shopping Carts …
Feed The People: Part Three
It’s all been gathered. It’s all been done. About 30 volunteers. About 300 miles in loops shuttling food to sort center and cold storage. Now it’s time to execute. Now it’s time to feed the people. Turkeys reign supreme in the freezer truck Ready for final load Left over, won’t go to waste Two of …
Feed The People: Part Two
Amazing day of collective effort and generosity. Various volunteers, long hours, and grocery store shoppers willing to donate food and cash to support those in need. Today we pull in the rest of the food needed, by hook or by crook, let’s feed the people. Modest Start, Saturday Past a couple boxes of produce, the …
Politics in Two Pictures: Two Nations, Two Tales
USA, 245 years, lots of work to do, fractured, bumpy democracy. Sudan, fighting for a foothold against a military dictatorship.
RBG
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Thoughts on Twitter, one (or more) words to describe her… Missed fierce Notorious AmazingBadassFairHeroicHonorableIncredibleInspirationalPioneer Icon.
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