Blog Posts
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Rhonda’s Hope & Vision 2022
My Mom said over and over when I was a kid: “We don’t see color.” “You don’t see color.” “It’s not appropriate to see color.” But, then, when I was dating my former husband she said: “We really like him, but if you marry him, what color will your babies be?” I married him. His…
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Catherine’s Hope & Vision 2022
Habits of agency and rising to the risks and rewards of relationships. As I think about the Hopes and Visions series for this year, I’m humbled to be walking with this community. On a daily basis I am thinking about how to be relentlessly reliable and resilient in service to our North Star. For me,…
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Christina’s Hope & Vision 2022
I was moving away from being a well-read racist and starting to grasp that racism was about behaviors and actions — about impact — in late 2019. I set a goal for 2020 Q1 to find an antiracism mentor / coach / tutor, a person of color who was in the business of getting white…
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Intro to Black History Month: Living Legends: Bobbye and Hubert Watkins
Join us in the Bistro to discuss!
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Christin’s Hope & Vision 2022
The Future Starts Now As a brand new mother, it’s hard not to filter everything in my life through the lens of my daughter and her future. Her birth has me reflecting back to when I was challenged early on in my time with LoR to consider my cross-racial, cross-cultural marriage in light of my…
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The Accusation of Cultdom
Someone recently posted on our Facebook page with no intention of working against racial inequity. He came to disrupt and to disparage. He came with contempt for what we do here under Lace’s leadership. And, with a complete dearth of originality, he called Lace on Race a cult, and Lace a cult leader. This is…
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A Bigger Safe-ish Space
There are so many examples of how phrases and repetition are part of learning – how language can bring together and unite us in solidarity. Common language is a bridge to deeper, more meaningful connection. I think about the 12-step program in AA and the language we use at work in discussing our company vision…
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We Do Our Work in the Light
Daniel, it seems that you found out I am totally blind and therefore may think I am weak or need to be handled with kid gloves, or that my vision of Lace and this community is distorted somehow. But I am here to tell you that I see you, we see you, for who you…
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Julie’s Hope & Vision 2022
Yo… it’s Julie. Happy spring to this wonderful, vibrant community! A toast to vaccines and herd immunity being a real possibility. I still can’t quite imagine what indoor concert venues, theatres, and all types of face to face interactions will look and feel like again. Most importantly, cheers to agency, volition, reliability, resiliency, kind candor,…
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Jessie’s Hope & Vision 2022
Jessie’s Hope and Vision 2022 Recently my mom texted me this photo of a letter she’d come across, which I wrote to my beloved Ginny Grandma when I around 10 years old, if memory serves me: My Ginny Grandma lived in Cadillac, Michigan most of the year and spent the winters with us in Illinois…