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before Garden and then in the after Garden hours,   this is where i am.    She will educate me,  inform me,  give me  the Warp to weave my own understanding .    it's how it seems to go,   that i got this book a while ago but other than the preface chapter,  it's just sat.  here.  in front of me on this everything table.    but after the other day of    the InSight,      it was time.   and how perfect it is.

talking to an old friend the other day,  phone,  old meaning from the Michigan days,   she asked me Why?   Why do i  think it "matters"?   to know?    She has chosen to avoid    news,   to turn away from the "negative" and  instead focus on bringing forward her own creativity,  her own vision.    And it's a fair question.    i carry it  as i begin .   

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7 responses to “so.”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    At times for me, it is both:
    What matters causes me to rise up, to act, however small the action whether it be letter writing, calling congressional representatives, donating $ to causes I believe in, holding conversations with like -minded and attempting to hold conversations with some not as like- minded.On rare occasions, in my elder years, taking to the streets in solidarity with what has presented.
    BUT there are also times, when what rises is so overwhelming, especially the repetitive nature, that I retreat, go inward, delve into learning and reading of a personal nature; turning to cloth to re create what comes forth.
    The constant is that what matters is always there in the back of my thoughts and how I respond has all to do with where I am at any given moment and I believe it is this way for many of us until that aha moment when we simply say, enough…

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  2. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I learned so much reading this book .. can’t believe it’s one that they have banned from some libraries. I spent the majority of my life ignorant to the challenges that minorities face every day. In truth it has only been in the last 15/20 years that I can honestly say I have made a concerted effort to learn everything I can. In truth I’m not sure I really knew the true meaning of racism and the challenges it presents in every day life. In all things that I just took for granted.

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  3. dee Avatar
    dee

    I think it’d be fair to ask “why do anything?” if asked why read this book. Clarity is innately healing and refreshing, even if issued from places corroded with damnation.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    when we simply say, enough. i think of this.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think. how i will/can never know that true meaning.
    and yes. all that we take for granted, assume.
    and here, how it’s so much more than race, how it
    is the Whole of our constructs of socio economic lives.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think of the use of the concept of
    healing
    healing What? and for Who?

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  7. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I’ve had it checked out from the library but it’s due in a couple days. I am going to purchase a copy so I can take some time.

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