The Mar Vista Green Tent

This Weekend Celebrate  #BlackWomenAre Divine A chance for all of us to recognize the courage it takes to simply live a life of dignity as a Black Woman in this country.  Click  here  for more information about how to participate. We Were Made for These Times An excerpt from the poem by Clarrisa Pinkola Estes:   Do not lose heart.  We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered.  They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world right now.  It is true, one has to be  strong to withstand much of what passes for "good" in our  culture today.  Abject disregard of what the soul finds most  precious and irreplaceable and the corruption of principled ideals have become "the new normal". Ours is a time of almost daily jaw-dropping astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.  The lustre and ...