Around the Table

Welcome to the new year with a new blog, Around the Table.  This table is a place to gather, tinker, toil - generally ruminate on what is and what is possible. 

I’ve heard “if you’re not at the table you’re on the table” – well, let’s make a new table.  I’ve spent too much time trying to get to someone else’s table.  When finally seated, I look around and too often still see I am part of a select demographic Fill-in-the-Blank: person of color, woman, refugee, Asian, etc.  I think I am supposed to be honored to have made it to the table, and I do count my blessings for the privileges I have enjoyed.  While doing so, I can’t help but wonder if again I am in the minority – a lesser-established category of those who recognize their white or near-white privilege.

What happens at these tables?  In my experience, not much.  It’s a slow process, this decision-making process we call democracy.  But like art, sometimes it’s the negative space that we need to pay attention to – the things that are not happening, but need to be.  So yes, not much is happening – all the more reason to leap into this with gusto! 

The first myth I’d like to bust is...

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