Taking the Lead

Taking the lead is never easy. Sometimes it’s a choice or even a pursuit. Often, though, it’s a position or responsibility that has been thrown upon people as a product of particular time or circumstance or because of who they are and what they do represent. To be at the Vanguard of the field, of a movement, of a moment is well much more than leadership in the traditional sense. Is it about the way we certain individuals live or embody something we have never seen before. It’s about the willingness to be the first and venture into the unchartered waters of the unknown. It’s about their conviction, tenacity in the face of backlash or resistance and their drive and determination to break boundaries and create new parody and possibilities. It’s about resilience and resolve, vision, and ambition, but perhaps crucially it’s about the way they inspire us to embrace who we are and everything we have to offer to take the lead ourselves. The people who are truly at the forefront of those who pushed the culture For really do it alone. They all bring all of us along with them.

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Patience


With kindness, practice putting your impatience on pause for moments throughout your day. Take a couple of deeper, relaxing breaths, look around the room you are in, feel your feet on the ground and remember that life isn’t meant to be a relay race. Make caring for your body, mind and heart a priority.  A sense of urgency may still be present, but you can relax into knowing you are doing the best you can, mindfully and compassionately, moment-by-moment.

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Self-Transformation

S: I’m grateful for the God tea. Sidebar, what do you feel like your top three contributing factors to self-transformation in the last few years have been?

KL: The power of honesty and being honest with myself, perspective about the person sitting across from me, and learning that vulnerability is not a weakness. That last one probably been one I’m still developing.

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Flourish

Taking Care Of Our Inner World Allows Us To Flourish In The Storms Of Life.

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Unconditional Love

Unconditional Love  (2012,186 pages) by Dr. Lela Haynes Session and Cynthia Session (MSW). This did not make my 50-page cut. I stopped reading at page 46. This left me wondering how this book ended up in my library. Did the coauthor Cynthia Hughes (MSW) and I cross paths at one point in time? The story reads like a beautiful obituary of Dr. Lela Haynes Session’s life with countless friends, family, and community writing her letters of gratitude and thanks. From what I could gather, she had sent out a form letter asking for letters and their permission to publish them in her book. After pages of letters, there is no clear introduction to who Dr. Haynes Session is, other than a kind woman. Nor was there any clear indicator of what she was a doctor of. In my reading I gathered it was of education, a quick Google search reveals she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 1967. I wish I could return this novel to the family of Dr. Haynes Session, but since I cannot, I will place it in my neighborhood  free library with the hope someone will appreciate it for what it is meant to be.

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