AMMJ
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Living, Loving, Learning |
| Location | Spokane, Washington, United States |
| Introduction | “Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human…You share what you have. It is to say, ‘My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours.’ We belong in a bundle of life. We say, ‘A person is a person through other persons.’ It is not, ‘I think, therefore I am.’ It says rather: ‘I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.’ A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from No Future Without Forgiveness |
| Interests | People, Education, Politics. |
| Favorite movies | The English Patient; Cold Mountain; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Reds; I Am Love; Silver Linings Playbook. (Seriously, that last one gets better every time I watch it. The others are beautiful and I love them for what they represent.) |
| Favorite music | Mostly country, but anything that is summed up as sad ballad. |
| Favorite books | The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Fine Balance, The Surrendered, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Lit, Leaves of Grass, Traveling Mercies, Teach Like a Champion |
Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp. What does it say?
Breathe.