In my journey as a student-practitioner with Whole Heart, I’ve been thinking, reading & talking about courage a lot lately – and not the kind that would prompt our favorite timid Panthera Leo to mend his ways along that yellow brick road. Rather, I am speaking about those ordinary and everyday choices which form the…
A poem by Melissa St. Clair: State of Maryland, Dorchester County On her head was a bounty Be Free or Die Across the miles, she did fly Following the drinking gourd in the sky A small summary: I share on the behalf of my friend and colleague Melissa St. Clair. Melissa and I recently went…
The following is a guest post contribution from one of the You Speak, We Listen speakers (Sept 2020). NIGGER! NIGGER! NIGGER! I can still hear those words piercing through my ears as if it were yesterday. I heard that vile word for the first time in my adult life while driving my car in Southern…