Be in community– Spend time with the people you consider your community. Pay close attention to how people interact with each other. What makes that specific group of people a community? Beauty walk in your neighborhood- take a walk around your neighborhood. Notice the things you attention to. How are often don’t pay the homes? How do people live? How do they interact with each other? How do they treat their pets and plants? How are the streets kept? What kind of businesses are there? Where do people gather? What’s beautiful about all you see? How was this experience for you? What insight did you gain? Discussion of Reading and Words of Wisdom Take turns reading the words of wisdom. Share about the one(s) that caught your attention. Discuss the reading and the questions below. Crosstalk can enrich your conversation here (avoid judging or wanting to and speak from “fix” things, your own experience, avoiding generalizations, and identifying who you mean when/if you use the word “we”). Words of Wisdom but nobody can make it out here -Maya Angelou “Nobody, alone” all need community to give us energy, to strengthen our voices, and to offer “We constructive criticism when we -Beverly Daniel Tatum stray off course.” to always be in a hurry. Everyone seems to be a stranger. They “People appear pray once a week while in church and they pretend to have no relatives…Seeing all of this makes me feel sorry for non-Native people. I walk a fine line and keep one foot in each world. That is how it is for -Wiley Steve Thornton me.” is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and “Without community, there temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not -Audre Lorde exist.” communities are sites of collective imagination, social processes rather than “All mere locations for living a -Manning Marable work.”
Be in community– Spend time with the people you consider your community. Pay close attention to how people interact with each other. What makes that specific group of people a community? Beauty walk in your neighborhood- take a walk around your neighborhood. Notice the things you often don’t pay attention to. How are the homes? How do people live? How do they interact with each other? How do they treat their pets and plants? How are the streets kept? What kind of businesses are there? Where do people gather? What’s beautiful about all you see? How was this experience for you? What insight did you gain? Discussion of Reading and Words of Wisdom Take turns reading the words of wisdom. Share about the one(s) that caught your attention. Discuss the reading and the questions below. Crosstalk can enrich your conversation here (avoid judging or wanting to “fix” things, and speak from your own experience, avoiding generalizations, and identifying who you mean when/if you use the word “we”). Words of Wisdom “Nobody, but nobody can make it out here alone” -Maya Angelou “We all need community to give us energy, to strengthen our voices, and to offer constructive criticism when we stray off course.” -Beverly Daniel Tatum “People appear to always be in a hurry. Everyone seems to be a stranger. They pray once a week while in church and they pretend to have no relatives…Seeing all of this makes me feel sorry for non-Native people. I walk a fine line and keep one foot in each world. That is how it is for me.” -Wiley Steve Thornton “Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.” -Audre Lorde “All communities are sites of collective imagination, social processes rather than mere locations for living a work.” -Manning Marable
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