We asked each woman to express the deepest feeling they would like to put on their sign, just as if they would be on full display in Washington, DC.
told it was more dangerous for us. We marched with these ‘poor blacks’ (as we referred to them then) down the streets of the town. The ‘whites’ looking on yelled and cursed at us and some threw things. It was loud and noisy and scary, but we continued down the street. Then it became violent. The police came and started using clubs and arresting people. One of the organisers told us to leave quickly as they would be hardest on us. Like Harry Potter and the invisible cloak, we left undetected and drove home realising that we had placed ourselves in a very dangerous situation. There must have been TV coverage of the march, for the next day I was called into my place of work as a public health nurse and told I could never march again or I would lose my job and never be able to get another one in the city.
One march. Did it do any good? Was our effort and putting ourselves in danger worth it? I like to feel that yes it was. True, it was only a drop in the bucket of what had to happen, and yet it was a drop that we participated in. Forty years later, our country proudly elected our first black president. All those marches, all those signs, all of that effort in the end truly paid off. What would your sign say? As a
really good practice, sit at your dining room table with crayons or markers and paper and make a sign that holds your deepest feeling about what is going on right now in our world. Make it positive, inspiring and loving, something you could show your children and explain why you wrote what you did. Or you could sit with a group of friends and create your signs together, or sit with
your children and talk about it. Your sign, and especially how you live the truth of what it says, will place another drop into the bucket of what is needed right now. n
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Joyce & Barry Vissell, a nurse/therapist and psychiatrist couple since 1964, are counsellors near Santa Cruz, CA, who are
widely regarded as among the world’s top experts on conscious relationship and personal growth. They are the authors of The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk to Be Healed, The Heart’s Wisdom, Meant to Be, and A Mother’s Final Gift.
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