FOLLOW THE NEED

« If you follow the need, you’ll never, you’ll never lack for a purpose in life »   Marian Wright Edelman fights for a level playing field for all children, so their chances to succeed don’t have to depend on the lottery of birth. What does it take to build a national movement? In a captivating conversation …

ACTIVISM IN THE KITCHEN

Leah Chase has spent the last seven decades serving her signature gumbo and hospitality to everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to James Baldwin to Barack Obama. Leah Chase’s New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase changed the course of American history over gumbo and fried chicken. During the civil rights movement, it was a place where …

EMMA ORBACH

« What would your life have been if your teachers had told you « Now, Dany, I want you to follow your bliss! » ? » Autres liens: Bio à la Une, 05.01.2017  « L’effondrement de la société sera dû à une surprotection. Nous combattons la faim par la surabondance. Nous combattons l’obscurité par un éclairage quasi constant. Nous combattons …

FEMALE ASSERTIVENESS : STOP RESOLVING THE TENSION

by Bethany Webster Tension is natural. There are infinite ways that tension arises and dissolves within us as individuals and as groups. Like a primordial wave, tension and its inevitable release are like an ancient swell that builds and subsides in all life. For example, tension exists in the form of a line between two points. …

« THERE IS POWER IN LOVE »

  « And now in the name of our loving, liberating and life-giving God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. « From the Song of Solomon, in the Bible: Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are …

SHIT ROLLS DOWNHILL

 » The pain that exists within us and therefore within our families is oh so patient, and unlike most of us, it knows it’s worth. It will not leave until we give it the wholehearted attention it demands. Should we chose distraction, busyness, material successes, “positivity,” or any other of the myriad of shortsighted dissociations, …

NEW SKIN

« We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. » ~ Joseph Campbell ~       

I QUIT

« This is gonna make a lot of people sad and probably some happy but I can’t worry about that now. I quit. Fine…call me a quitter, I don’t care I just can’t do this anymore. I’ve changed. You’re not to blame, I’m just not the same person you knew before. So… not to be rude, …

SOLDATS, UNISSONS-NOUS !

« …Je suis désolé, mais je ne veux pas être empereur, ce n’est pas mon affaire. Je ne veux ni conquérir, ni diriger personne. Je voudrais aider tout le monde dans la mesure du possible, juifs, chrétiens, païens, blancs et noirs. Nous voudrions tous nous aider si nous le pouvions, les êtres humains sont ainsi faits. Nous …

THE CALL

I have heard it all my life, A voice calling a name I recognized as my own. Sometimes it comes as a soft-bellied whisper. Sometimes it holds an edge of urgency. But always it says: Wake up my love. You are walking asleep. There’s no safety in that! Remember what you are and let this …