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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…

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Day 11 – Songs for Saturday

House by the Sea – Moddi (this is my new absolutely favorite song and band, and the video for this is gorgeous) They say home is the place where your heart is Then I am home now, though I am far away For so long I’ve let the forest guard it And now it’s begging…

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Day 10 – It Is Worth It

  Day 1 – Go Out Into the Wild Day 2 – Links To the Wilderness Day 3 – The Freedom of My Mind Day 4 – Songs for Saturday Day 5 – Self-Care Sunday Day 6 – #Ferguson Day 7 – Links for Anti-Racism Work Day 8 – The Way the World Works Day…

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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…

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Day 8 – The Way the World Works

  “I sure did live in this world.’ ‘Really? What have you got to show for it?’ ‘Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.’ ‘Lonely, ain’t it?’ ‘Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody…

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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…

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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…

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Day 5 – Self-Care Sunday

Over the past year I’ve fallen down a lot on my blog reading.  I’m trying to get back to it, and there’s something relaxing about giving yourself 30 minutes or even an hour, to just sit and read and not feel guilty about it. There are 3 blogs that whenever I do pop over to…

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Day 4 – Songs for Saturday

    Music is a great way to be inspired and relax.  I’m compiling a Spotify playlist that I’ll share at the end of the month.  If you have any favorite bravery songs, let me know!  Here’s a few of my favorites:     Bravedancing – Rachael Sage So let faith fall on me now I’m gonna…

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