Tag Archives: community
Quiet Kindness
I stayed at a cheap roadside motel after losing everything — job, apartment, relationship.The clerk handed me a key and said, “Room 7. No deposit tonight.” I asked why. He said, “You look like me ten years ago.”When I checked out a month later, I left enough cash to cover another stranger’s week. When my dad passed, I couldn’t bring myself … Continue reading
Black women
““Black women have not focused sufficiently on our need for contemplative spaces. We are often ‘too busy’ to find time for solitude. And yet it is in the stillness that we also learn how to be with ourselves in a … Continue reading
Quiet Kindness
My grandma was in the hospital for a long time. When she died, I donated her old, knitted quilt to the ward that treated her. 2 years later, when my daughter was born, I noticed the same colorful quilt folded at the foot of our bed. A nurse smiled and said, “It’s … Continue reading
Story Time
I love to take my 2-year old granddaughter on Tuesday mornings, which are supposed to have story time. I’ve never seen a story teller – maybe it’s a volunteer position and they don’t show? But you can be sure that … Continue reading
Local news: Get engaged
I love the Op-Ed section of the paper. I believe we all need to write at least one letter on something we’re passionate about in our lifetime. In saying that, I applaud this reader Re: “To rebuild trust in local … Continue reading
