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A Gentle Call to Hold Space

We cannot, and we should not, keep whitewashing our history with a single story of “the peaceful dinner,” as if one shared meal could eclipse centuries of genocide, broken treaties, displacement, indoctrination, and grief. 

We don’t need guilt or shame to tell the truth, yet only the truth will set us free: free to love, to heal, to grow. We need the courage to hold precious both the beauty of gathering with the people we love…and the pain carried by those who survived what we tend to pretend never happened.

The Power of Words: From Division to Unity

Language shapes thought. Thought shapes belief. Belief shapes behavior. The words we choose become the world we live in, and when our language divides, our hearts follow. The beautiful truth in that means that when our language unites, our hearts follow too!