Month 9 of the Social Justice Challenge (SJC) highlights the injustice of modern-day slavery. The goal of the SJC is to foster learning about social justice issues through reading and then to put feet to that newfound knowledge through some sort of action. (Learning is the easy part; it’s the…
The goal of the Social Justice Challenge (SJC) is to read about issues affecting society worldwide so that this newfound knowledge might inspire small acts of kindness—or even better, to ignite large-scale change. All 12 SJC topics are interconnected, but this month’s topic—Illiteracy and Education—seems to be the common denominator…
With just a few days remaining in Social Justice Challenge Month 8, I’m finally posting a little something. Odd it’s taken me this long, considering the focus for this month is literacy and education. (yippee!) Reading and learning seem to be embedded in my personality or DNA or something. Fun…
Tears are readily flowing from my eyes as I turn them to focus on worldwide poverty for this month’s Social Justice Challenge topic. And that’s a good thing. Tears soften the deadened places of the heart. Tears make the heart malleable, ready to be shaped into a living, beating muscle…
It’s Month 7 of the Social Justice Challenge (SJC). The goal of the SJC is to foster learning about social justice issues through reading and then to put feet to that newfound knowledge through some sort of action. (Learning is the easy part; it’s the action that’s difficult!) For the…
Sometimes when I am driving about town, I am amazed at the workings of our traffic lights. The trio of colors tells us when to go, when to slow, when to stop. I drive according to the lights without thought, fully trusting other drivers to obey the signals they see….
Anytime I hear news of a baby’s birth, I ask of the newborn’s name. I may not know this child or the parents, but I ask because I love to hear how first and middle names fit together. I mull and toss the name about in my mind, considering how…
It’s Month 4 of the Social Justice Challenge (SJC). The goal of the SJC is to foster learning about social justice issues through reading and then to put feet to that newfound knowledge through some sort of action. (Learning is the easy part; it’s the action that’s difficult!) The SJC…
I seem to have lost the month of March. It must have fallen out of my pocket or slipped out when I left the front door open too long. Maybe I’ll post some signs about town: LOST Third Month of the Year 31 days / 744 hours / 44,640 minutes…
Language is a complex beauty, ever evolving (for good and for ill) and mysterious in its nuances and threads. Words and phrases are never objective for we subjectively run them through our personal filters. As we receive communications through language, we strain out meaning that means something to us personally—but…
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