by Jerome Paige | Jun 18, 2020 | Economics for Yogis, Featured, Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations, Public Policy Adventures, WOJM-SM
The Reverend Al Sharpton’s eulogy for George Floyd asked white America to take their knees off our necks. Our family history provides at least five disturbing examples of a knee being placed on our necks with the purpose of trying to control and destroy us. My sister,...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 13, 2020 | Cultural Connections -- HumanitiesDC...DC Living Heritage Network, DC History & Public Policy, Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations, North Portal Readers & Beyond, Public Policy Adventures
This sign beckons us to remember and say their names. I noticed it in a neighbor’s yard on 16th St. NW DC about two blocks south of the Circle during my Friday night my walk through my neighborhood. A week ago, neighbors had gathered along to support the...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 5, 2020 | Meditation: A Gateway Knowing, Being & Action..., Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations
June 5, 2020…. 85 classes in 75 days…. This is a “personal best.”…. In the Summer 2013, I completed 71 classes in 75 Days. Back then, I had fallen off my bike and fractured my left elbow and ring finger. My goal was to practice every day...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 2, 2020 | Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations, Public Policy Adventures
A couple of days after May 24, 2020, the “breaking news” was a white woman who called the cops on a black man in Central Park in New York City. In the video that the black birdwatcher took showed a hysterical white woman fabricating a story about being...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 1, 2020 | DC History & Public Policy, DiSC...Strategic Planning....Communications.....Team Building, Making Happen, Meditation: A Gateway Knowing, Being & Action..., Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations, Organizational Development Expeditions, Public Policy Adventures
As we watched George Floyd’s death and see the spreading unrest as a response to his murder, a question I get is: What does it take to make peace “happen?” Based on my work with the Black Yoga Teacher Alliance’s (BYTA’s) trademarked program “Yoga as a Peace Practice,”...
by Jerome Paige | May 25, 2020 | Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations, North Portal Readers & Beyond
In our May 2020 Zoom meeting of the North Portal Readers, we discussed “I Can’t Make This Up; Life Lessons” by Kevin Hart (2017). Our discussion leader’s 32-year-old nephew had recommended the book to his aunt. While many of us were very familiar with Hart, it was...
