#caring communities

[praisethelordofmyown]

Step Forward and Grit Your Teeth

My last post was “Give Up or Get Up.” Great advice, right? It was a post trying to encourage people to never give up, to fight the good fight, to keep going, no matter how hard life gets. That’s been my philosophy for 70 years and I have always been proud of how I have lived my life. I’ve had more than my share of personal struggles, starting in my mid twenties with a disabled baby that stayed…

[miss-quiet-musings]

From Ferguson to Standing Rock, Palestine to Athens, Chiapas to Occupy, Black Lives Matter to Quebec student strike, eviction defense to refugee solidarity, and innumerable moments and movements of self-organization, our dreams not only won't ever fit in their ballot boxes; their beauty is already being practiced. We're good at experimentation, within the cracks and crevices of this tired, broken world. We're expert at being subversive, stealing our lives and lands and cultures back, against the crime that is state and capital. We prefigure egalitarian, dignified, and mutualistic ways of being and becoming, albeit always imperfect, through acts of everyday anarchism. They may say we're not there, writing us out of past and present; they may deny this liberatory sensibility, and try to disappear it; they may dehumanize, invisibilize, or brutalize us. Yet we know. We remember. We dream together, wide awake to the beauty of freedoms too expansive for any regime to vote, legislate, judge, administer, surveil, or imprison away. (Photo by Cindy Milstein, panel from labor monument, Detroit, 2016)

[improfem]

In caring Communities geht es für mich darum, Solidarität und Verbündetsein zu praktizieren. Wie kann ich Räume schaffen, in denen Menschen für sich sorgen können? Wie kann ich anderen ein_e gute_r Verbündete_r in Selbstfürsorge (self-care) sein? Mir ist es wichtig, nicht davon auszugehen, dass ich die Verantwortung übernehmen muss, für alle zu sorgen. Zunächst einmal finde ich es wichtig zu reflektieren, inwiefern das Sorgen für andere eine_n davon abhalten kann, für sich selbst zu sorgen. Obwohl ich denke, dass diese beiden Dinge sich nicht gegenseitig ausschließen müssen – was ich in den caring Communities lerne, in denen ich mich bewege. Aber vor allem kann und werde ich nicht immer wissen, was andere Menschen brauchen. Ich will nicht an die narzisstische Vorstellung glauben, dass andere davon abhängig sind, dass ich sie rette oder dass ich weiß, was das Beste für sie ist. Für mich ist das keine Fürsorge, sondern die Reproduktion einer Dominanzstruktur.

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[praisethelordofmyown]

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

Find a way to help Cultivate Your Caring Community!

Somehow the past week has gone flying by and my daily habit of writing a post stopped.  The reasons or excuses are many, but the main reason I stopped writing was that I started sleeping all through the night, sometimes from 9 pm to 6 am!  I have always written at night since my surgery, so now I have to change my schedule around to allow for creativity during the day that is usually noisy and…

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[midlifetransitioncoaching]

I'm grateful for...(Part XXVI)

I’m grateful for…(Part XXVI)

After numerous emails and time/date conflicts, we made it.  We carved out some “girl time.”  And, it was worth the wait!

I’ve known Mona Freedman since 2008, when I first volunteered for the World of Possibilities Disability , Healthy Aging & Independent Living Expo.  It’ll be Saturday,May 2nd from 11am-4pm at the Radisson Hotel,North Baltimore,2004 Greenspring Drive.  I helped with some ideas…

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[beyondbabymamas]

We Are the Ones We’ve Been Taught Not to Wait For: On Shanesha Taylor and Caring Communities. Last week, a black single mother dominated the national news cycle. In her mug shot, plastered above many a think-piece headline, Shanesha Taylor's tear-soaked cheeks and emptied eyes were offered to the world as a kind of apology, a kind of explanation, a kind of platform.