I would hope that the Lgbt Community would recognize me to continuing that progress is the key to the progress weve made so far which is engagement and political engagement. And what also recognize that both the Supreme Court and elsewhere around the country we have systematically than limiting what was a limited democracy to begin with and making true selfgovernment harder and harder and would recognize if our political progress and progress on race and gender and a series of other things are intimately tied up in making this really into a self functioning democracy again i recognize that commonality is political. I would say that we need to recognize issues of race, class, sex is some are lgbt issues and we have an investment not only in cases like this one, but comprehensive Immigration Reform in access to health care. All of these are lgbt issues because people look like the rest of the country. We shouldnt get so into our silo that we forget that. Theres something about being a mi
Small gardens replace in our classrooms or our homes. One thing i did was i endeavored when there was an issue of conflict between a muslim and Christian Community, i had the Muslim Community school right down what they felt would be the ideal garden, the shapes and sounds and images that warmed them and brought a sense of peace. Then i had the Christian Community to the same. Then i had them actually create each others garden, literally tending each others garden. I think that kind of work is very valuable and can be a tremendous source of healing. You think about any kind of trauma, not simply war, but natural disasters, the idea of bringing aspiration to action and doing things for others i think is very important. One thing i wanted us to brainstorm together in addition to some external places and spaces we can create, i think there is some internal spaces that we can that we can build and nourish through things like spoken word, giving victims and the people around them restored s
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