Waking, I feel my work in Oak Park calling, and strokebrain has been integrating a confident and enthusiastic response.

It's Donnell Washington (not his real name) and his fellow parents, still redolent in my mind, reaching into present time from the 1990-era program where I got to know him. It's the Spirituals Workshop and alternative worship-service workshop, seeking an outlet and building threads of relationship for them to travel along. It's the olddude-gifted laptop itching with "Put me in, coach, I'm ready to PLAY!" It's the owning class people I held in my arms as they wept for the brutal conditioning that made them turn away from reality. It's all that, and more.

It's ALL the tools-- blessings-- I have that I'm ready to share, again.

~Susan