DEI

Why the outcry against DEI? 

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion 

What’s the confusion? 

Some in collusion for exclusion 

The only conclusion is delusion

Blaming equity for mediocrity 

Claiming quality needs uniformity 

Fearing ethnicity means adversity 

Spreading falsity for popularity

Why the outcry against DEI? 

Women’s Environmental Leadership Summit

 So Grateful to be on the scene thanks to 

Tennessee Women In Green!

So many voices with important choices.

More to share from so many who care.

More great speakers for Day Two, 

but this wonderful summit wasn’t through.

Anxious to see what was in store 

at the Omohundro Water Treatment Plan tour. 

Taken from my social media posts for TWIG

Tennessee Women In Green - while attending the 

2024 Women’s Environmental Leadership Summit

John Lewis Way

From Jefferson Street that stretches to Fisk

Where he was a student willing to take risks

Boarding the bus as a Freedom Rider

Willing to carry the message wider

With sit-in protests at Woolworth's counter

He's well-known was a Civil Rights founder

Honored with a street in his name

Now they're trying to strip that away

Not yet a year from the day

Rep John Lewis Way needs to stay!

Often seen at the side of Dr King

Equality is what they tried to bring

Later sit-ins on the Georgia House floor

Always willing to say and do more

He witnessed so much hatred and rubble

Only seeking to incite good trouble ……

That’s the John Lewis way

Honored with a street in his name

Now they're trying to strip that away

Not yet a year from the day

Rep John Lewis Way needs to stay!

Written after attending a rally last weekend seeking to prevent change of street name.

Added downtown mural photo in support of poem. 

Half Mast

Flags at half-mast

It happened so fast

A steady, deadly blast

How long did it last?

Digging into his past

A dangerous outcast

The damage was vast

Causing flags at half-mast

In response to Chattanooga shootings in 2015. 

Reposting after July 4th shooting.

Peabody

 Her Peabody is gone but his spirit lives on

As a mini horse, he was tiny of course

But so much more he had in store

Saved by a lovely soul with loving him her goal

Taking him into the foal, gives him a chance to stroll.

Not one to shunt the runt, fully accepts the brunt

Soon to find he wasn't blind, so endearing his selective hearing

So many to inspire before his liver would expire

 Her Peabody is gone but his spirit lives on

Saw the story on The Kelly Clarkson show this morning but then was so sad to see the In Memoriam.

https://youtu.be/HmZfvLr8T64

Chadwick Boseman

 Jackie, James, and Marshall 

Not sure which I’m more partial 

To these strong men well chosen 

By the great Chadwick Boseman

SO Inspiring as Black Panther

HOW can he be lost to cancer?

Such brave character woven

In the great Chadwick Boseman

written after watching ABC special tribute to Chadwick Boseman. 

 

Baseball Tribute

Dad introduced me to baseball
One October Fall

World Series with Red Sox and Reds
Late getting to bed

Carlton Fisk hit his late home run
They were not yet done

Heartache from Game 7 final score
There'd be many more

Till 2004's famous comeback
A near heart attack

2007, 13, 18
So much would they mean

I'd send him the Championship gear
He would proudly wear!

We got introduced to Dice-K
One Jupiter day

Sitting with my husband and dad
What a gift I had!

Till they traded Mookie away
And Dad died the next day


Written early March when in Florida for Spring Training and Dad's service.
 Posting on my first Father’s Day without him.

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Added an update for the delayed service for my dad September 2021: 

I pushed the team away
Been cheering for the Braves

 They began back in Boston
My husband found it Awesome

 That my dad saw game back then

Working back to the Sox again