Posts By: Janet Givens
COURAGE: the final installment in the Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage 2020 Tour. Curiosity pushes us to open the box, explore the myth, or initiate a conversation with someone we don’t understand. Compassion brings an empathetic consciousness to what we find. Our decision to choose compassion is often harder than we expect. How much easier it… more »
We continue today with my mini series on the three words that have woven themselves into much of my work of late: Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage. Today it’s COMPASSION’s turn. Merriam-Webster defines this noun as the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” That’s fine. In fact, every definition of… more »
And So It Goes has evolved over the years. A year or so ago, I began to focus on the triad Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage as a mantra for the posts I share. I’ve been gratified to see how my commenters have also adopted elements of these three. I have great readers, wonderful subscribers, and… more »
We began this series on confronting racism in mid-June. In Part I, I asked “When did you first become aware of your race?” This was not a question I’d have thought to ask, actually, being of the “race is a social construct” mind set. But I took it from the website of The National Museum of… more »
One of the many benefits of having written a blog for the past seven years is that it gives me access to the living rooms of hundreds of people I’d otherwise not have had. And today I will use that privilege and trust you will welcome it. Every now and again we are given an… more »
“In light of recent events, a lot of people are now feeling a very visceral response in how they show up in this world, and how they see it from our lens,” says Ramunda Lark Young, co-founder of Washington-based MahoganyBooks, an independent bookstore specializing in books written for, by or about people from the African diaspora. Have you had… more »
What a great poster this protester carried. Treat Racism like CoViD 19, it declared: Assume you have it. Listen to experts about it. Don’t spread it. Be willing to change your life to end it. And it’s that fourth one that’s been preying on my mind. What am I willing change in my life if… more »
Saturday, lightning struck our street. We were luckier than some on our street; we only lost our modem. The folks down about a half mile had fire spewing out of their electrical outlets. In between is my mom’s little house. She lost her modem, her satellite TV, AND, her adding machine exploded while she… more »
This is George Floyd’s face. Most of us know of him from the viral video of his death under the knee of Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis policeman. Or from the news media coverage this past week. Or from social media posts. We deplore the killing. Of course we do. We know it should never… more »
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