Originally posted on Raising My Rainbow:
Imagine my utter delight when I learned that at the next PTA meeting, someone would be speaking about the anti-bullying laws in place to protect LGBT and gender creative kids. Although I’m a card-carrying PTA member, I’ve attended only three PTA meetings in my six years as mother to…
It’s new and it’s amazing but it’s also breathtakingly scary, dealing with the unknown… yet knowing what’s coming. The excitement is palpable, and, yes, the fear is real but having a chorus of hands waiting to catch you if you stumble, fall or both is supremely uplifting… Appreciation and astonishment at the circle that forms […]
Early morning, dew and orange juice, grass cutters and high-pitched ‘good morning’ calls compete with loud footsteps thundering outside your door. Sleep beckons you from your bed pleading with you for five more minutes. AM news and traffic updates, coffee cup in hand, heels on straight. A new day.
A change is coming, winds are blowing. Roots one knew one had but never realized how adaptive they could be, are forming around this change, roots to hold one still in the midst of the storm. A change is coming.
I said goodbye, and your blink never happened. You missed it as my face closed, and the shadows within my heart, shuttered over it, inflamed by your indifference and your missing awareness. I remember the moment that my goodbye became final, when I realized that no matter how hard or how long I knocked, you […]
Ebola is something that one can no longer ignore. USAID notes: Today the world is facing the largest and most-protracted Ebola epidemic in history and President Obama has declared it a top national security priority. “Faced with this outbreak, the world is looking to us, the United States, and it’s a responsibility that we embrace. […]
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