Amen!

Returning from a powerful weekend workshop on Eliminating Racism and Building Diverse Communities, I had two big jobs to start upon my return:

1. I was the presenter's, Dr. Barbara J. Love, volunteer recordist, and was asked to split the workshop's segments up onto CDs. I came home with all the files on the laptop, and have backed them up on CD, plus a copy on flash ready to mail to Dr. Love ,. She has also asked me to transcribe the portion on "Historical Origins of Racism," which was a delightful survey of world history from the viewpoint that Racism had a beginning and therefore can and will have an end, just as have so many other movements in history.

2. I had a number of workshop participants to add to the mailing list for the monthly class that has been meeting on this topic. (I anticipate more requests from others who attended.) Today I got the 4 added that I already had on the list; while in the addybook I noted a naming convention to standardize, so I edited the existing 15 or so entries to comply with that naming convention. It was so neat to see again how many white folks are meeting monthly, in a committed way, to work on this stuff!

To keep my attention on the positive while doing this (I'm also giving up daytime TV), I'm running a Kru[unmlaut]ger Brothers CD.

~S~