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You can view the original post here Written by a SHINE Energy Yoga Instructor Trainee after studying their required studying of How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi — I need to share a narrative about myself and the way this e-book helped shift my mindset. A mindset that I didn’t even notice wanted shifting. I need to admit, I rolled my eyes a bit after I noticed this on our studying checklist. I begrudgingly downloaded the audio e-book, pondering, nicely, I can hear whereas I stroll the canine and get my steps in. It’s narrated by the creator, Ibram X. Kendi. He has a really soothing voice. Perhaps too soothing, I shortly discovered myself daydreaming or not paying sufficient consideration on my each day walks. Then this occurred.... I went out to dinner with my 3 youngsters and my mother and her husband. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than the dialog took a unfavourable flip. My mother and her husband sharing their ideas and emotions about protests, riots, and common malaise...

You can view the original post here By Rev. Amari Magdalena We seemingly begin each new year with hopes, dreams, goals, and those nefarious resolutions that are oft whisked away in the buzz of living in an electronic age.   Some of us attempt to reclaim the newness with other New Years, Chinese, Nowruz etc.   Anything to keep hope of unmet aspirations alive. Yet life moves on and we are met by the positive and negative.   Hopefully we’ve learned as in Tao, to not place an uneven emphasis on either. That illusive quality of time seemed to dissolve in 2021, a numerological 5 year of change.   Just as many of us were celebrating a change in governance, a January political coup taught us how very fragile is our democracy. We witnessed a rise in hatred when love and acceptance were much needed. Conquering a deadly virus seemed within reach and yet we end this year with a troubling variant seemingly taking us back to ground zero.   Frustration over isolation and dramatic change...

“If someone deletes their comment, that’s success for me,” says Andrew Tierney. “Hopefully, that person will think about what they’re saying in the future.” Tierney, who goes by the identify @cybergibbons on-line, is a part of a brand new breed of biking activists. After noticing a rise within the quantity of abuse and violent threats on social media directed at individuals who journey bikes, Tierney determined to take motion. He began calling out the posters on-line, with the end result that many deleted their feedback and even their accounts. “If someone says something racist [online], on the whole, people will challenge those views,” he says. “It should be the same for threats made against cyclists; challenge those who make these statements.” There was a noticeable improve in digital threats in opposition to cyclists because the Freeway Code adjustments and clarifications have been within the information, Tierney believes, and he has began responding to probably the most sev...