Remembering Michele Serros, MLK, and Why the #YourTurnChallenge
In 1964 when Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, in his speech he said”I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice.” http://nbcnews.to/1BdllKU (“dreams don’t die” 2012 cardboard retablo by Dianne Bennett).
I think we must all be “engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice” as well as social injustice and environmental justice.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve, said MLK. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. (Read more about the speech where these words come from here).
All you have to do is step up, and accept the challenge that it’s your turn, and that it’s always your turn.
Tuesday night at 5pm is also the quarterly Ventura Arts Forum at the WAV (on the corner of Ventura Avenue and Thompson Boulevard). Sponsored by the City of Ventura, the WAV and the Ventura Artists Union, the forum seeks to foster collaboration, arts advocacy, networking with other artists.
You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant. MLK
- Blogging teaches you discipline.
- Blogging teaches you introspection.
- Blogging gives you a voice.
As I wrote in my post “Why Blog,” “What I discovered about blogging, what I love about blogging, and what was most freeing for me as a writer by blogging, is that for most people on their personal blogs there is no editor–you really are free to write what and how you want. The only editor is the one that is inside your head. And it is really easy to edit and change your writing–even after it is published!
Blogging offers unconditional love, like the puppy waiting for you to come home, the kitten who loves to play and be scratched and purr, the friends that are happy to see you when you join them at the table.
Read more about the #YourTurnChallenge. If you choose to join the #YourTurnChallenge, you can write about anything but preferably not anything too trivial. I’m going to try to write daily on at least two of my blogs. To go deeper, organizer Winnie Kao has offered these Daily Questions which you can use for prompts. Or not.
Day 1 Mon. Jan. 19: Why are you doing the Your Turn Challenge?
Day 2 Tues. Jan. 20: Tell us about something that’s important to you.
Day 3 Weds. Jan 21: Tell us about something that you think should be improved.
Day 4 Thurs. Jan. 22: Teach us something that you do well.
Day 5 Fri. Jan. 23: What advice would you give for getting unstuck?
Day 6 Sat. Jan 24: Tell us about a time when you surprised yourself.
Day 7 Sun Jan 25: What are you taking with you from this Challenge?
And maybe one of these days I will learn how to code so I will understand what is going on when my paragraphs don’t show up where I want them to be… at least I am not having the problems with connectivity that I had last night!
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