So, Silver Linings Playbook was just released on Netflix instant, so I thought this was a good a time as any to adapt and bump this up from the archives since it flows with the Walking Brave theme. Also, if you haven’t read the novel the movie was based on, go do it! It’s the…
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Day 12 – Self-Care Sunday
I listened to two NPR TED Radio Hour shows this week – From Curiousity to Discovery and The Source of Creativity. I love this program because it summarizes a few TED talks on a certain topic, and also interviews the speakers, so you get more than just a TED talk. These two programs were…
Day 11 – Songs for Saturday
Day 10 – It Is Worth It
Day 9 – Introducing Structural Racism to Kids
[blockquote cite=”James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain” type=”left”]She looked out into the quiet, sunny streets, and for the first time in her life, she hated it all – the white city, the white world. She could not, that day, think of one decent white person in the whole world. She sat there, and…
Day 8 – The Way the World Works
Day 7 – Links for Anti-Racism Work
A new thing I’ve been doing, when I become overwhelmed with all the bad news, is to find the people and groups that are doing good work. So as a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Ferguson, here are links and resources to people who are doing good anti-racism work, and also ways to keep up…
Day 6 – #Ferguson
This is an excerpt from Issue 1 of Walking Brave. #Ferguson has made it hard, if not impossible, for people to say ‘I didn’t know’. Maybe before, white people hadn’t really paid attention to ‘systemic racism’. Maybe you know people who actually describe it as – raise those fingers – “systemic racism” – because they…