"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists." The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On the same week that many of us are celebrating the life of MLK Jr., we also mourn tragedy and distrust in our country. Listening to the national and international news is deeply unsettling. Not to say that this is in any way comparable in intensity to the times in which this quote was made. I was not alive then, and therefore can not assume to know such moments of experience. I can merely suggest or assume and reflect on those that I do have experience with since that time. On this point, that being humility and open-mindedness, I hope to always show my tendency. Should this not be the case, please honestly and respectfully provide your observances. I will consider them.
So what about me? I am a graduate student working on my second graduate degree, mother, wife, daughter, granddaughter, psychotherapist, and future school psychologist. I am in my early 30s and am at the stage of my own personal life at which I am both passionate about issues and willing to consider viable and reasonable options to the state of our world. Please speak your mind and expect that I will in turn do the same. Such is the beauty and the regality of living in a democratic society.
And finally, what about this blog? This blog will likely be most often about world and political issues with a noticeable undertone of healing and consideration. I urge you to think and feel with me about the many issues facing ourselves and our youth today and in the future. That's where I encourage myself to look, for certain... In the moment and in leaning toward the moments ahead.
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