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There is a version of my story that makes it easy to hold me up as a poster child of the promise of the American Dream. But the reality has more nuance…
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Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Public libraries are often seen as “opportunity institutions,” opening doors to, and for, the disenfranchised.
Shannon Mattern • Library as Infrastructure
"It is rare for people to come into themselves if no one is excited and curious about their core, their potential." https://t.co/Ul3gwjTquz
Each person is a variable that can change—shifting the makeup of the whole.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
I’m not interested in having to step out of my daily life to have it or in creating a separate place in isolation from the rest of the world—that leaves too many people behind. We have to make it where we live.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
We need a vision of community that is relevant and future-facing.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
So many of us are kept from wrapping the resources of money, care, and time around the people we consider family.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Rather, this is about creating ecosystems in which people are encouraged and supported, where they have access to tools and techniques, helpful organizational “recipes,” and examples of positive living so that they might move slowly but surely into themselves. It’s not magical and it doesn’t happen overnight, but in the right space and at the right... See more