☀️ The Daily Boost #868
Here's some evidence
The Daily Boost (published weekdays) is one of the newsletters of The Raft, the online community of author Phyllis Cole-Dai. We Rafters ride the river of life buoyed by music, poetry, and other arts, along with open spiritual practice. Most everything here is free, but patrons (paid subscribers) get some special perks as a gesture of gratitude.
Meeting people. As people.
That’s the way it starts.
Here’s some evidence.
(My thanks to Neal Foard, and especially to Daryl Davis and his friends in the Ku Klux Klan.)
“Red, for Life,” by Laura Foley
The Gentle Nudge
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Wow. Phyllis, once again I am moved to tears. Now I must see this documentary about Daryl Davis. Talk about bridging divides. If such things are possible, it seems like sound-minded folk might be able to bridge their political divides and find some common ground. Maybe, as the bonus poem Red for Life suggests, if I can recognize "inside myself the god-ness I find today" then I can
sorry - my computer froze. If I can recognize "inside myself the god-ness I find today" then I can also recognize it in others. If Daryl Davis could recognize "god-ness" in members of the Klan then I think it's possible, no?