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DIALOGUE, PEACE, AND LOVE WITH A WISDOM KEEPER

12/6/2016

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Drove home in the rain from Asbury Park public library where I attended another meeting of the Dialogue Group- a group of concern, intelligent cirtizens who try to improve the welfare of the community. After the meeting, spoke privately with a wise black woman who is a wisdom keeper.  She told me she witnessed the lynching of her uncle in Florida when she was a girl.  The two of us sat there, I assume close in age, and contEmplated soberly the fate of America now that Trump has been elected.  I urged her to be sure to send me some of her wisdom in a monologue for TAPT's late February production of The American Flag: Trumped.  I asked her to tell us about the lynching and to draw whatever connections she wants to our current situation.  Outside in the rain we hugged and she said to me, "peace and love, peace and love."
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