The honesty in your words and experiences are a great gift to this website.

Thank you, my friend!

I agree with Mary! I love this line: " The joy on their faces was medicine to my soul." I had a similar observation when visiting Egypt, where I had been warned was so poor and terrible. Within the first hour of my visit I saw more authentic joy in people than I had ever seen in the US, and it made me sad for us. We don't really know what joy is. Part of healing society-wide will be discovering these lost connections.

We are resilient! We work. We are raising children. We are riding relationships. We are in search of healing. We are facilitating healing for others! These facts alone speak to our resilience as human and spiritual beings. Therefore, we have the ability to change how we live and how our children live moving forward. My mother's generation was the first generation of Black professionals that were highly educated and obtained jobs that were good enough to provide the financial security that...