Journal Gazette Publication: October 14, 2018 We tend to think that school-age children are blank slates who don’t see color and only learn about race when they first encounter it. Yet studies show that by ages 2 and 3, kids use race to choose playmates as well as to reason about people’s behavior. By ages 4 and 5, white children show strong biases in favor of whiteness and have already learned to associate some groups with higher status than others.…
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I love to help people dismantle internal obstacles so that they can connect with each other in profound, meaningful ways. What do I mean by ‘internal obstacles’? Patterns, belief structures, childhood learnings often before…
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we are all connected in the deepest, most intricate of ways – each of us to every one and every thing, seen and unseen. There is not one thing we do or action we…
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Blog Connected At Our Cores The Inner Self Writings and Art From My Colleagues
An Interview with MacKenzie Sanders
I met MacKenzie Sanders about five years ago when we moved into the West Central neighborhood where she and her family lived...…
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Blog Connected At Our Cores The Inner Self Writings and Art From My Colleagues
An Interview with Dr. Ruby Cain
I met Dr. Ruby Cain earlier this year when I accepted an open invitation to attend her monthly community dialogue, It Is Well With My Soul...…
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Blog Connected At Our Cores The Inner Self Writings and Art From My Colleagues
An Interview with Summer Lydick
I metSummer on Instagrama year or more ago and was intrigued by her colorful, layered art and her buoyant approach to life...…
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I used to shy away from the term Sacred Feminine. Three reasons. One: It so often seems to elicit only religious connections for folks…
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There is a long history of gathering en masse to shift energies and paradigms, legislation and belief structures...…
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My mom turned 94 years old yesterday. 94! If you caught a glimpse of her now, you would see someone doing simple puzzles, reveling in sing alongs, loving her sweets, repeating the same questions...…
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This week was all about Keeping the Peace, or rather, keeping the connections, or rather, seeing where we've forgotten the connections and illuminating them...…