Shining Brightly for All to See
June is the month honoring LBGTQ rights. On June 15th, we made a big step forward with the courts. An employer can no longer discriminate against you for who you love.
On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled that race and color could no longer dictate who you may love creating Loving Day (named after the couple; yes, their name was Loving!)
𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞.
When I ask you to wear a mask, it’s not for you, it’s for me. This is me a few weeks ago when I had to be tested for COVID. I was sick. I was tired. I was scared. Fortunately, I was negative.Yes, it is America and you still have rights, but please understand…
This is where it happened — Ashton Villa. General Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19, 1865, known as Juneteenth ever since. This is Juneteenth. This is American history, as well as black history. The end of slavery should be everyone’s celebration as no one is free until all are free. All should…
I chose this journey for its flexibility and an acceptance of what I could and would do in my real life, not some candy-colored fake life wherein I wear white without stains and never have roots and am IG ready at all times.
Love. Enough said.
Back when I was 38 and Growing, I examined my need to play “What If?”, otherwise known as Traci’s Sliding Doors game. This is not the healthiest of games, as I noted but as time has passed, I have begun to play it a little better. It is easy to play “what if?” when you…
Imagine a puzzle box. It jangles when you shake it. You can hear the soft cardboard pieces slide from one side to the other just begging to be laid out on a table and slowly built into the whole they once were. Piece by piece, nooks and crannies connect and a picture emerges. Smiling faces…
Welcome to Friday Fragments. If you haven’t fragged before, Friday Fragments is a place to share those thoughts, quips, and tidbits that don’t quite make a whole post’ e.g. fragments or frags. I host every Friday and would love for you to join in. Please link up and visit other Fraggers. *** Well. it’s Friday….
My son, you will conquer the seas and I look to the day you return to regale me with your triumphs. Those days will come. You cannot see them through the fog, but I am blinded by the gleam of your fortune.
My friends at Axis of Ineptitude chose “April Showers” as the prompt today and it couldn’t be more apropos. I am struggling. I don’t always like to admit that but I will today. I am a positive person; always have been. There is always a silver lining, a rainbow with a pot of gold, or…
Sometimes life brings people in your life that change you forever. And if you’re lucky, they change you for the better. I have been blessed with many who fit this description. Some have come as family; others as teachers. Many, many have come as friends walking along the same path as I. They help me…
