Monday Whatevers
August 23, 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 in the world right now. Some are beautiful, promising, and reassuring. Some are poignant, thought-provoking, and necessary. All of them add to a greater knowing of God’s presence in this world, within our humanity, and out in the great beyond. And, they all prove there’s an abundance of spectacular, breathtaking tangible and intangible cosmic matter between us.
Please feel free to share in the comments whatever is good that you’re seeing in the world as well.
Blessings,
Marcie
WHATEVER IS TRUE…
Center for Contemplation and Action: Race & the Cosmos
WHATEVER IS HONEST…
LuiSpot: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – If Michelle Obama Had Natural Hair
WHATEVER IS JUST…
Federación SOS Racismo: A Hidden Camera Captures Reactions Against Racism
WHATEVER IS PURE…
The Dick Cavett Show: James Baldwin Discusses Racism
The Dick Cavett Show: Baldwin & Weiss Debate Discrimination In America
The New Yorker: Letter from a Region in My Mind by James Baldwin
WHATEVER IS LOVELY…
Brides: When Did You Know You Were In Love?
WHATEVER IS GRACIOUS…
GeoBeats Animals: Goose Responds To Humans Taking Her Injured Boyfriend
GeoBeats Animals: Woman Opens Cafe for Special Needs Crows
GeoBeats Animals: Rescue Kanga-Dog Insists on Daily Couch Cuddles with Dad
WHATEVER IS EXCELLENT…
AFI: There Is No BLACK PANTHER Without Denzel Washington
WHATEVER IS WORTHY OF APPLAUSE…
U2 & Harlem Gospel Choir: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
May your week be filled with whatever is true, honest, just, pure, lovely, gracious, excellent, and worthy of praise.
Much Peace,
Marcie, BCWWF
I just made time to watch Dick Cavett's interview with James Baldwin. This should be required viewing in every US History class. Everything Baldwin discusses so eloquently is as relevant today as it was in 1969 (which I assume is why you suggested we watch). I don't know what it will take to awaken more white Americans, but thank you for doing what you're doing. For what it's worth, I'm trying to rouse those in my circles, and encouraging everyone I can to read anything Baldwin's written.
WOW! The last statement by the white interviewer with the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie when Chimamanda said of Obama: "they wanted him to be Jesus Christ" to which the interviewer replied "well he couldn't be" and she was inferring to his skin colour unless I read that wrong. I don't think she was inferring to the impossibility of anyone being like Jesus Christ. - she had been pretty literal in her questions. Hmm. That interview felt a bit like the "white washing" you tube video you posted last week- that one has really stuck in my head. Maybe the interviewer should have watched the Chrs Roc documentary on Blackness and the hair industry. It is so good!