Schreter_BreneBrown - The Monday Morning Memo

Indy-

I’ve long been a fan of the Wizard and have been particularly taken by his theory about the Pendulum since the book came out in 2012.

All of the vitriol spilled in political discourse for the last year left me wondering if we’d ever come out alive from this “Us vs. Them” mentality that seems to have taken over the country. For my own sanity, I’ve been desperately seeking signs of the swing back to “Me” and may have found one in this Brené Brown blog about Gun Control that hit my newsfeed in response to the recent school-shooting tragedy in Florida.

Take a look; I’d love to hear what you think.

Aroo!

-Jonathan

NOTE from Indy: If you’re lucky enough to have a few minutes to click that link Jonathan provided to the Brené Brown blog, that’s awesome. If you’re even luckier than THAT, you have the time to watch this second video from Brené.

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To My Mother

You were born on July 9, 1964, in Greenwood, Mississippi, delivered into the cradle of white supremacy. Listening to the stories of terror and hope woven into the story of your birth used to frighten me. The year before you entered the world, white supremacists were blocking food aid to Greenwood, trying to starve Black sharecroppers who were demanding their civil rights. You were carried home in the middle of Freedom Summer, right down the street from where Fannie Lou Hamer led a movement that included your neighbors and cousins to demand self-determination. You suckled and wailed, oblivious to your membership in the final group of Black babies born under Jim Crow. There were many such children, born just on the wrong edge of the fight for freedom. But only one of them was my mama.

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- Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, March 2021

NOTE from Indy: If you’re lucky enough to have a few minutes to click that link Jonathan provided to the Brené Brown blog, that’s awesome. If you’re even luckier than THAT, you have the time to watch this second video from Brené.

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