Blog Posts
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To Bomb Or To Balm?
I checked the calendar. This weekend marks the one year anti-anniversary of one of the hardest days of my life, both professional and personal, that turned into the hardest year. Yesterday and today, that time was revived in sharp relief, when Mr. Dan Werner came into our metaphorical living room, much like last year, lobbing…
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Vicki’s Hope & Vision 2022
To Heal and Be Healed For most of my life, racial justice was something that affected other people.I lived in a white bubble and had a detached interest in the subject until George Floyd’s murder. Then, like a lot of other white folks, the video of a Black man being murdered by a white cop…
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Hope & Vision 2022
In this, this introduction to the Hope and Vision series 2022, I feel it’s important to overtly name why there was no Hope and Vision 2021. There should have been. All of the essays from Staff and Leadership Team have been in the can for months, waiting for my intro and my wrap up, and…
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Welcome to The Good Place
Hello! We are going to be doing something together! I have been so excited to share with you this series which I think will have an enduring and beneficial effect when it comes to the work we are doing together. You have heard me speak of ‘moral activism’. There are various ways to think about…
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The Selling of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2022 I wish this essay, written over a decade ago, were less relevant. I wish that the concerns detailed in the piece were less burning. But no. My fears from a decade ago, that this would become just another holiday, a day where one could get a mani pedi or…
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Hanukkah Reflections, 2021
Eight nights that lead to, that invite us to — rededication. This is the gift that Sarah Hurwitz gives us in her wonderful article “8 Nights, 8 Jewish Values”. This week, I am gifting to us, the beloved Lace on Race community, both the essay as well as the video series I recorded last year,…
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Mid-October Invitation to Engagement
This Mid October Invitation to Engagement is short(ish) and sweet. Not because it isn’t important; it most certainly is. Rather, it’s because there is simply so much going on–like always, I have a list of things to write, reminders to engage, one on ones that give me such joy, planning a surprise that I hope…
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Tenet Six: Grow Out
The Sixth Tenet is the culmination of this series, and is the reason we do the work. I have said this before, but it bears repeating: whatever knowledge you glean or growth you experience here at Lace on Race (and if you choose to reliably follow our prescriptions, you will indeed gain in knowledge and…
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October Invitation to Financial Engagement
Early Fall is here. The leaves are turning and falling, even here in San Diego. Even on hot days, like this one, there is a crispness in the air as the sun sets. It’s sweater weather after dark now. It’s harvest time. Fall is when we stock our larders, fall is when we stew and…