Tag: history
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Just the Beginning…
July 18 always gives me reason to pause. Today I remember the incorporation of a visionary idea that became the Greater Ocala Community Development Corporation (GOCDC). Long before I became an employee, I was a young female board member who simply said yes—yes to the work, the vision, and yes to believing our community deserved greater opportunity. It…
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What We Learn From the Great Maya Angelou, #9.2025
Dear Creative, My mind races with thoughts of current events, women’s rights in sports, and, yes, Black History Month. I hope you are well. My prayer is that this letter is received with the good kind of angst that fills my heart right now—the sort that sings, “We are not laboring in vain.” Prayers are…
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Celebrating the 248th 4th of July
Today’s message will be kept short and sweet so that I too can enjoy this mid-week holiday. As I thought about what I wanted to post, I could find no better words to convey the level of gratitude I have for our country’s independence from Britain, than those from an incredible American, Fredrick Douglass who…
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LIVING HISTORY
On this day in history, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act (CRA) into law. 76% of Republicans voted in favor of the 1964 Civil Rights bill while only 60% of Democrats voted, affirmatively, and Democrats outnumbered Republicans (253 to 178). The Senate had an even bigger spread between the two political parties (Republicans were 82% in favor…
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LET FREEDOM RING OF THE REASONS BEHIND OUR GOOD WORKS
While freedom, from bondage, has every right to ring, from the southernmost plains to the nation’s lofty capital, the Emancipation Proclamation was but a step toward the end of the ungodly, dehumanizing social norm carried into the new land called slavery. On January 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation affirming “And by…
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JUNETEENTH DAY!
As Americans we can celebrate that we live in the only nation that fought a war to end slavery!
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DO YOU DESERVE A MOTHER’S DAY GIFT?
Edited version. A mother is “the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world.”
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SHORT AND SWEET #17: T.S. ELIOT, CATS, PEOPLE
“For you know only a heap of broken images.” T.S. ELIOT Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on this day in 1888. Thomas Stearns Eliot died at age 76 in London, England. He came from a prominent family. His grandfather founded Washington University in St. Louis. The reason I add this fact is that I was…