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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

called HerFuture.com for women to find mentors and be mentors.
Gabrielle Bernstein • Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles

"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
She was one of SF's most decorated chefs. Now she feeds the Tenderloin for free
Rachel Levinsfstandard.com
We need a vision of community that is relevant and future-facing.