The respite from exile continues…

A more current voice speaks to us today. It doesn’t diminish the power or truth of her words. Please feel free to take the concept and run with it. I would be honored to reblog such an effort. Thank you, Léa

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”There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”  – Arundhati Roy

Trauma and Memories

You don’t want to miss this link which is also available in the comment section.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-reliable-are-the-memories-of-sexual-assault-victims/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_term=2018-09-27_featured-this-week

By Hook Or By Book

Today, much of the United States have been glued to their tv screens, computers, tablets, and smartphones, watching the sickening spectacle of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh as they gave emotional testimonies before the Judiciary Committee. After watching Dr. Ford being questioned over 3 hours, I have to say that she was sympathetic and credible. There’s one thing that I wanted to address that the Republicans and Rachel Mitchell, the Republican sex crimes prosecutor who was hired to question both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh seem to be obsessed with. How is that Dr. Ford can remember in such detail the actual assault, but not other things like the exact date and time of the party, how she got there, and whose house it was. I’m going to share something that I’ve only shared with my husband, that may not provide a full explanation, but maybe put…

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Doors

Please forgive my extended absence. There have been numerous computer issues and all are not yet resolved. Lea

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“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn’t have the power to say YES.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” – Anatole France

“What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.”                                                                              – don Miquel Ruiz

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Doors

everywhere we go

doors are behind us

some loom ahead

as though we must possess

some magical key

to gain entry

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there are doors that

we must labor to gain entry

but our toil will be rewarded

some doors left ajar

anyone can access

you are welcome here

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other doors remain sealed

regardless of our

sacrifice – slammed

in our faces, without a trial

publicly shamed for

our endeavors

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impenetrable is the threshold

of the closed mind

entombed by ignorance, hatred,

control of what

they cannot comprehend

that which frightens – doorkeepers

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doorkeepers who prey

on the doors of those

they chose to marginalize,

disenfranchise, condemn

robbing us of the power

of choice – self determination

… life

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– Léa