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08/04/2025

1st day of 10th grade for my favorite daughter and 12th grade for my favorite son! Let's get it!!!

07/16/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In and happy birthday in heaven to activist/author Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931). May her words continue to inspire us today:
"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."
(The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader)

07/09/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In💚 and happy birthday in heaven to author/poet/activist June Jordan (1936-2002). May her words inspire us today:
"Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter."
(June Jordan, Soulscript, 1970; photo by Gwen Phillips)

05/28/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In🤗 and happy birthday to singer/author Gladys Knight (May 28, 1944). May her words inspire us today💚

05/21/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In💚
"If anyone should ask a Negro woman in America what has been her greatest achievement, her honest answer would be, ‘I survived!'"
-Pauli Murray, Author/poet/activist

05/14/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In💚..and happy birthday in heaven to author/poet Eloise Greenfield (May 17, 1929-Aug. 5, 2021). May her words inspire us today:
"I’m not striving to improve. I think growth and improvement are pretty automatic when you’re working at something that’s difficult. I want two things: to spend the hours of my life doing something that is satisfying to me and to make a contribution. I leave the assessment of my growth to others."
-Interview with Don Tate, Feb. 18, 2008)

05/07/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In💚
And happy belated birthday to author/educator/ activist Alice Randall (May 4, 1959). May her words inspire us today:
"God doesn't give a man anything more precious than a good woman."
Alice Randall, Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel (2012)

04/30/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In💚
"You cannot grow without growing inside."
-Gayl Jones, The Birdcatcher (1986)

04/23/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In💚
"What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?"
Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (2017)

04/22/2025

04/16/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In, and happy belated birthday to author Nella Larsen (April 13, 1891-March 30,1964). May her words continue to inspire us:
"Faith was really quite easy. One had only to yield. To ask no questions."
-Nella Larsen (Quicksand, 1928)

04/09/2025

Happy Wednesday Wellness Weigh-In💚
"Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do."
Terry McMillan, Disappearing Acts (1989)