I recongiize authencitiy in myself when I experience emotions that I don't expect. I watched the broadcast from the Old North Church on 4/18/2025 and found myself if tears. I didn't expect tears. but it was an authentic experience. "Hardly a man is still alive who remembers that famous day and year...."
I can’t thank you enough for this post, and for introducing me to ALOK. As a white, straight, cis woman I am learning more and more every day how crucial it is to ask and pay attention to what marginalized communities actually need- rather than push our own agendas of what we think they need. The art of listening is one of the most important practices we can cultivate in these times.
Those Howard Thurman words have been such a touchstone for me in recent years. THANK YOU. Breathing them in again. I see you loving with so much authenticity, MaryAnn, and living from the genuine in yourself! And thanm you so much for introducing me to Alok!!
Alok is speaking clearly a truth for all of us…knowing oneself and living authentically to that knowledge is difficult but there is such strength in the action.
Valuing myself rather than living in the expectation of others is a lesson learned over and over again, at least for me!
I recongiize authencitiy in myself when I experience emotions that I don't expect. I watched the broadcast from the Old North Church on 4/18/2025 and found myself if tears. I didn't expect tears. but it was an authentic experience. "Hardly a man is still alive who remembers that famous day and year...."
I can’t thank you enough for this post, and for introducing me to ALOK. As a white, straight, cis woman I am learning more and more every day how crucial it is to ask and pay attention to what marginalized communities actually need- rather than push our own agendas of what we think they need. The art of listening is one of the most important practices we can cultivate in these times.
Listening
Asking
Discerning
Acting
This is our calling today and every day.
Those Howard Thurman words have been such a touchstone for me in recent years. THANK YOU. Breathing them in again. I see you loving with so much authenticity, MaryAnn, and living from the genuine in yourself! And thanm you so much for introducing me to Alok!!
Alok is speaking clearly a truth for all of us…knowing oneself and living authentically to that knowledge is difficult but there is such strength in the action.
Valuing myself rather than living in the expectation of others is a lesson learned over and over again, at least for me!