Monday Whatevers
June 14, 2021
Hello, Friend!
It’s Monday, so… inspired by on one of my favorite bits of the Bible, let’s start every week off with a little bit of whatever’s good and noble in the world. Here are a few excellent and noteworthy things I’m seeing and loving right now.
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Blessings,
Marcie
WHATEVER IS TRUE…
Neil deGrasse Tyson:The Most Astounding Fact
WHATEVER IS HONEST…
Glamour Magazine: Amber Ruffin – The First Time My White Husband Witnessed Someone Discriminate Against Me for the Color of My Skin
WHATEVER IS JUST…
PlanetWalk:John Francis
National Geographic: Meet the Planetwalker
TED Talk: Walk the Earth
WHATEVER IS PURE…
Washington National Cathedral: Light Moves
WHATEVER IS LOVELY…
John Downer Productions: Robot Hummingbird and a Million Butterflies
WHATEVER IS GRACIOUS…
The Dodo: Veggie Garden for Groundhogs
WHATEVER IS EXCELLENT…
NBC Sports: Simone Biles 7th National Title
WHATEVER IS WORTHY OF APPLAUSE…
Playbill: Watch the First 8 Minutes of In the Heights
CBS Sunday Morning: Anthony Ramos
May your week be filled with whatever is true, honest, just, pure, lovely, gracious, excellent, and worthy of praise.
Much Peace,
Marcie, BCWWF
Well good morning Marcie. Your Monday is my Tuesday and I look forward to this so much. Now a humble confession. I read the article about John Francis, the planet walker and I'm blown away. I turn on the video you tube and am blown away by assumption that I would see an Anglo man. No excuses, just another look in the mirror at my inbuilt prejudices. Then I get to think - how much harder would it be for a black man to walk across America. Yet I can't excuse my prejudice on that basis because that's what systemic racism does, doesn't it, it locks people out. So a dose of "whatever is ingrained," to humbly confess to my God today.
The Glamour article is great. I can't believe I'm about to write the next words - my sister in law comes from Barbados, and we have had many a discussion about racism. Moving to oh so white Australia was really hard for her. Still is. That's the first time I've written about my sister in law on a post, because in all the black lives matter debates last year, I kept reading that phrase "my sister in law is," or "there is a bi racial family member blah blah"; as if that was an instant antidote to racism. I love Dawn deeply but that gives me no protection against my systemic racism. In closing, today I take this lesson: Whatever is challenging my learned assumptions is true and holy. Thank you. 💜🙏💜
The Glamour article... heartbreak. So true. And I love NDT! Thanks for sharing.