my heart is breaking open again, at the great harms we humans can cause each other.
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i’ve been thinking a lot about how i see people respond to friends and family who are making the shift from default binary gender labels, language and expression to less “easily-defined” ones. i have several friends and family members who are on this journey, and it’s not necessarily easy to shift out of a really sticky, cement-like binary paradigm.
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without further ado, i offer you this Message from Gaia….
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fifteen years ago i was guided to write a book called “Get That You Matter.” the short version of the story is that i spent almost ten years working on it. then i got the message to burn it (the paper copies, that is… i did save one version on a hard drive- just in case). the logo i had designed for it was a ripple. you know, like how a rock makes ripples in water?
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this phrase woke me up yesterday like an announcement over a loudspeaker. i've been thinking a lot about the state of our world and how we got here, especially as i returned to bone-dry California after a trip to visit my children and granddaughter in Colorado.
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for the last few months, i’ve been doing what i call a “deep dive“ into my white privilege and the ugly truth about this place i call home- the so called “United States” of America.
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in three days, my daughter and her family are moving 1,000 miles away.
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like other white folks i know, i’ve been feeling “stuck” for a couple of months now.
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