Dec. 24, 2020: The reality is that we are all dying, and dying is a beautiful part of life. Taking a good, honest look at death feels so essential, yet is hard to do in the everyday grind - it seems it can be truly looked at only when we are face to face with it.
Now don't go thinking, not for one second, that I am special. “That Angela, she's amazing - if anyone can heal from cancer, she can.” I've heard that. The thing is, we can all heal ourselves from whatever it is that we are each suffering from - cancer, depression, autism, PTSD, heart disease, all of it.
Healing is not the same thing as being cured. Healing to me is being present with what is and feeling all the feelings that come up, then letting them go. Healing is holding a vision for a healed me and feeling the feelings as if I am already healed, without attachment to that vision.
Then I am healed.
On Oct. 2, The Root Social Justice Center celebrated three years of open doors with a community dinner and dance party. It was a wonderful time of celebrating all that has been accomplished in the last three years, as well as announcing our move toward being a regional racial-justice...
Two graduate students, one African-American and one Latina, were accused of stealing beer from Hannaford. It took multiple steps for the incident to get cleared up, and as of this writing, the supermarket still has not apologized directly to the students who were wrongly accused. Thankfully, community leaders at...