Your friendly reminder that gender norms are hand delivered to us by the grown-ups around us when we're little. The books we read, the shows we watch are shaping our understanding of where we fit in the world. Be aware and mindful of what possibilities you are cutting away from or offering up to young ones.
I believe everyone has a right to dignity. Are you paying attention? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/us/philadelphia-walter-wallace-jr-shooting/index.html
Can you think of a time when you felt seen? Someone, maybe someone who didn't really know you well, notices something about you that you didn't notice until they called attention to it?
Shout out to Ally McGregor who is melodicmime on instagram for her poetry prompt. She encouraged me to do a free hand eyes closed random drawing, then make a list of the words that emerged from that drawing and create a poem from that list/variation. Here's what I made. Turns out, I was thinking about saving the earth.
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AuthorCreative enthusiast, gregarious naturalist, opinionated humanist, MBA, RYT 200. Amy Kay Czechowicz completed a poetry challenge for 2018, 2020, and half of 2023 by posting an original poem daily to this blog. She teaches yin and vinyasa weekly at Green Lotus Yoga in Lakeville, Minnesota and chimes in here from time to time with musings and rhymes. Archives
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