This week's Share the Wealth welcomes Natalie in our class-----
Share the Wealth with Natalie Long–Abogados Descalzados: or, How Latin America Taught Me to Be a People’s Lawyer
From the period of September 2009-January 2012, I was a law student, a law school drop-out, and a pupil of revolutionary Latin America. I eventually finished my law degree and became a licensed attorney…but only after spending time learning at the feet of communities in Mexico and Guatemala, where people taught me what it means to struggle (and to be a lawyer accompanying those in struggle).
It gives me joy to share the stories of the people who welcomed me into their homes and the lessons they taught me. Please join us for an evening of storytelling, reflection, and fellowship.
Sunday 26 March
Potluck dinner begins at 6:00 p.m.
Natalie begins sharing at 6:45
At the home of Marty and Jerry King
830 DeMun Avenue, 3rd Floor
Clayton, MO 63105
Potluck dinner begins at 6:00 p.m.
Natalie begins sharing at 6:45
At the home of Marty and Jerry King
830 DeMun Avenue, 3rd Floor
Clayton, MO 63105
Good news doesn’t sell, so few would listen to radio or read a good news paper!
ReplyDeleteOur lives are the good news, we live it, print it into reality.
Every moment holds the potential for being, being a special edition of good news. Do I need others to “read” it – to read my life? To notice the special edition?
I’m alive, that’s good news. Forsythia blooms and spiderwort pops up with the wild asters, rising out of the winter that wasn’t harsh this year – that’s good news. Or is it just what is? Who am I to judge it good or bad news?
It’s a judgement that it’s good to have wonderful eyes that touch the sky and in the same thought-nano moment, I hold people who are blind, sightless. And the people who are unable to see sky with physically perfect eyes because they are downcast, dulled, asleep to the beauty.
Children are good news, they hold the future. For some, children are a burden, another mouth to feed, a babysitter to find and pay. Children demand from us, take and suck from us – it is in giving that we receive. Hugging is a gift, a luxury or time and safe touch, a good news caring gesture nearly lost or non-existent in the busyness.
Why does media print the sorrowful, the dramatic, erotic, painful hurting scenes and stories? Every day is a string of pearls of special good news editions – Look at them, see them, be awake, notice!
Who is this we who offers things that are NOT wrong? Do I want to offer more positive attitudes and stories? Is it Pollyanna, selfish, available only to those who have “enough”
Having “enough” food and shelter, love and warmth, sharing and caring – that is worth benefiting from this kind of good news – making sure everyone has “enough”…
Is the dandelion enough? I am enough, every thing and every person is enough, whole and holy, as is, just as is!