by Kate | Sep 28, 2024 | Advocacy
It might seem that working to make change in the world is an outward action. In fact, real change begins with an internal pull or push. The inward work of advocacy needs to continue throughout the process. Here’s what I think happens: The call: You see or experience...
by Kate | Sep 18, 2024 | Advocacy, Chronic healing
There’s a song* that goes “all God’s critters got a place in the choir.” The song lists many animals and the different voices they might add to a choir. In the grand work of building a better world, we each have a part to play, even those of us limited by illness....
by Kate | Sep 13, 2024 | Advocacy
The Beatles sang “we all want to save the world” and “take a sad song and make it better.” They recognized that people acting from the best parts of themselves want to improve their world. It’s a natural part of compassion. It’s how and for whom to make it better that...
by Kate | Sep 20, 2023 | Advocacy, Chronic healing
I was 10 years old when I began my life as an activist. In my small Wisconsin hometown, a group of us kids painted oil drums bright co echo turn off the kitchen lors. Helpful adults arranged for them to be scattered around downtown so that people could use them as...
by Kate | Sep 13, 2023 | Advocacy, Chronic healing
What if we saw privilege as an invitation to make the world a better place? When Chef Asma Khan was a young girl growing up in India, her father took her to the ruins of the ancestral palace. From there, they could see the remains of the surrounding slums. “It was an...
by Kate | Sep 6, 2023 | Advocacy
This month, I am working with the kind promise “I will advocate courageously.” I was raised to believe in advocacy. If you saw an unjust system, you joined with others to work to make things right. For example, when I was a kid, I was not allowed to eat grapes. My...
