Becoming Her There was a woman I greatly admired She was caring creative self-confident daring She was smart and had a career She completed herself as a wife and mother while I cowered and cringed filled with fear For me risks weren’t an option Then I began to come into my own The process was slow I married a man who believed in my growth […]
Archive | February, 2014
Casey FitzSimons | A view of my daughter’s childhood and other poems
A View of My Daughter’s Childhood She pulled violently away from me with shouts I saw but did not hear and tore rudely through other pedestrians who lost packages, stumbled. A block away, her coat a-sail, still she shouldered on, offending. Behind rushing forms I lost sight of her, caught sight of her hair, swinging, a leg, now and then, until she slowed, lunging and panting further on and walked […]
Girls will rise
Girl Rising: A girl with courage is a revolution. This is the gut-wrenching, heart-expanding documentary about nine girls–from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Nepal, Peru, and Sierra Leone–who represent millions of girls denied schooling, forced into marriage, sold into slavery, who irrepressibly persevere to rise up. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins with cinematography by David Rush Morrison, Girl Rising profiles girls like Suma, a Nepalese girl sold […]
Martin Willitts, Jr. | One girl…and God is not amused
One Girl One girl; that is what it takes to say “no” in a world of men thinking they know what is best for the girl, never asking. One girl; that is what it takes to run away, in a direction she does not know, except it is not where she came from, and she fears going back. One girl; is a dangerous voice to the men thinking […]
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