Each generation has a choice to make...

I was born three days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. My brilliant mother, who had escaped the Jim Crow South to attend graduate school first in Oklahoma and then Upstate New York, decided that when I was old enough, to pack up and make a move west. October 1968, we were on our way!

I recently shared on social media Russell Vought’s deliberate stance to cause trauma for an entire generation as abhorrent and inhumane. I am grateful for the halcyon days of my youth, my incredible education and teachers to whom I will forever be indebted, and my parents who created spaces and opportunities for this happy baby to grow, explore, be curious, and seek joy. Which led to my life's work; to better understand and bring people together/to connect with our shared culture and history. What information have we/are we imbuing the current generation from which to make choices moving forward?

In gratitude. Onward, with boots on!