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“The truth is, us kids, we just want to be the voice for the people we lost, or for people who don’t think they have a voice. I am prioritizing this over college right now, I am prioritizing people’s lives over my education.”
SAMANTHA FUENTES, who was wounded in the school shooting last month in Parkland, Fla., on whether to begin college in the fall or continue the campaign to promote more rigorous gun safety laws.
Our America has become a “reality show” watching/reading about the lives of others – passively.
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The America of now does not witness what is real – real lives. Living life as”personas” on social media platforms aware of being watched – not witnessed.
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What happens to empathy if one’s lives are circuited/hijacked by what other people think? We are hardwired to smell truth like dogs. Sacred listening is the morning of hope.
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What happens to becoming a life harvested from one’s vision quest, dark nights of the soul?
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Living is complicated. Living a life where you rise to your TRUE North and to know your integrity is incomparable currency. Welcoming those who rise and whose word=action is GOLD issustenance.
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We are and become the stories of our lives. We choose to honor and respect our souls by selecting those who SEE you and welcome the bone, marrow, blood and heart of who you are and as you sail on the seas of living life – y/our blessed voyage.
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Our children live the reality of lockdown. Our children are enduring the secrets, betrayals, hustling, deceptions and lies of our government.
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Our children dared because their torment was overwhelming. Our role as adults to protect/shield them were blind to the shattering of their innocence.
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Irony: 60 Minutes’ interview with Stormi Daniels follows the MARCH FOR OUR LIVES. Watching v. witnessing. “Reality show” voyeurism v. call to action.
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Our HOPE has been taken hostage – our lamentation and our complicity. We need a WWII’s DUNKIRK to retrieve our soul. The dialectics of COURAGEACTIONEMPATHYFURY’SHOPE.
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I marched yesterday. Yes, of course. Yes, absolutely. Yes, because I live now. To witness the current, the voltage, of children march to the Capitol’s steps was deafening. To hear their child voices pleading eviscerated me and my friend. The event was somber and cried out a NEED to atone by ACTION for OUR children’s unforgivable suffering.
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Truth RISES. RADICAL Hope. Sacred listening. That is the JOY of being ALIVE!
Enough CHILLING HORRIFIC hypocrisy of elected officials.
“THOUGHTS/PRAYERS” + NRA $$$$ = ?
Thoughts + prayers will NOT reverse trauma.
GOD did NOT do this and nor did plant life.
THIS IS A CHILLING “MADE IN AMERICA”CREATION.
MOBILIZE WARM ACTIONS.
STOP GUN VIOLENCE KILLINGS.
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FYI:
“WARM”
EXTENDED THROUGH SUNDAY 18 FEBRUARY
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“HOMELESSNESS
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UNION GOSPEL MISSION
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SILENCE
America, land of the free?
Images of real life tell us the truth.
Have our minds become numb,
mouths paralyzed, avoiding confrontation?
We were put on this Earth
not to hate each other but to love.
understanding fear of those who suffer.
We must not let silence be our sin.
– Kari Irene Musil
Twin Cities based jazz musician/composer and writer
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Keeping empathy suppressed and denied, when an innate action of humane courage is imperative, is a decision to be silence itself
– to be complicit.
All of us have been blessed with someone’s humane actions of kindness, when our worlds seemed to have shattered, that fortified our hope, our faith, our courage, our body and mind.
Practicing humanity begins with you and me.
The measure of our character is our capacity to see/reality, empathize/compassion and do the right thing/step UP moral courage.
Recall the times when your world was fragile, and someone’s actions of “SEEING” you and, in turn, they stepped UP and fulfilled your need – a testament of radiant RADICAL HOPE.
Black Dog Café has served Lowertown with their warm and relaxed presence for over 20 years. They now host a full bar and serves Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner from their scratch kitchen.
They will be serving a special fish offering throughout Lent.
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Kyatchiopened their Lowertown location in December 2017. They offer happy oceans and plate up sustainable ingredients – especially with a focus on sustainable fish and seafood.
The Declaration of Independence was a collaborative, improvisational text created by visionaries of freedom.
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Thomas Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” is on exhibit
in the Library of Congress.
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“We holdthese truths to be sacred & undeniable;
that allmen are created equal & independent,
that from that equal creation
they derive rights inherent & inalienable,
among which are
the preservation of life,
& liberty,
& the pursuit of happiness“
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X XIWISHIKNEW Catherine L. Johnson 2011
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“Let America Be America Again“
Langston Hughes
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“I Too, Sing America“
Langston Hughes
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“PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER“
Patti Smith + Fred “Sonic” Smith 1988
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I was dreaming in my dreaming of an aspect bright and fair and my sleeping it was broken but my dream it lingered near in the form of shining valleys where the pure air recognized and my senses newly opened I awakened to the cry that the people / have the power to redeem / the work of fools upon the meek / the graces shower it’s decreed / the people rule
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X The people have the power The peoplehave the power The people have the power The people have the power
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Vengeful aspects became suspect and bending low as if to hear and the armies ceased advancing because the people had their ear and the shepherds and the soldiers lay beneath the stars exchanging visions and laying arms to waste / in the dust in the form of / shining valleys where the pure air / recognized and my senses / newly opened I awakened / to the cry X
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The people havethe power The people have the power The people have the power The people have the power
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X Where there were deserts I saw fountains like cream the waters rise and we strolled there together with none to laugh or criticize and the leopard and the lamb lay together truly bound I was hoping in my hoping to recall what I had found I was dreaming in my dreaming god knows / a purer view as I surrender to my sleeping I commit my dream to you
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X The people have the power The people have the power The people have the power The people have the power
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X The power to dream / to rule to wrestle the world from fools it’s decreed the people rule it’s decreed the people rule
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X I believe everything we dream can come to pass through our union we can turn the world around we can turn the earth’s revolution we have the power
As the defining image of the Expressionist movement, The Scream stands as a pivotal work in the history of art. Munch created the image in the mid-1890s as the central element of his celebrated Frieze of Life series. The powerfully-rendered, blood-red sky presents the viewer with the reality of Munch’s experience at the moment he is gripped by anxiety in the hills above Oslo. Like his Dutch contemporary Vincent van Gogh, Munch’s desire was to paint a new form of reality rooted in psychological experience, rather than visual. It is this projection of Munch’s mental state that was so artistically innovative – a landscape of the mind, whose impact is still felt in the art of today.
An icon of global visual culture, The Scream is instantly recognizable – from Beijing to Moscow to New York. Since its creation at the turn of the 20th century, the provocative work has only gained relevance and impact over time. The haunting composition stands as the visual embodiment of modern anxiety and existential dread, referenced by everyone from Andy Warhol to The Simpsons. Edvard Munch and The Scream have been the subject of countless books, scholarly articles, films and museum exhibitions.
FRESHDRIEDBLOODIAMHUMAN Catherine L. Johnson 2013
WHITEWASH Catherine L. Johnson 2013
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