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heart while I rock back and forth and say very softly, “Peace, Peace, Peace.” In addition to asking for help and feeling the divine comfort, it is important to be that loving light for others. Use your intuition and reflect on people that you know and ask yourself if you feel they are needing extra love. Then call them or send them a loving email. If you call them, do not talk about politics or the pan- demic or other upsetting topics, tell them how much you care about them, ask them if they are needing help, tell them how much you love them. Being a true friend to others right now is a very healing thing and extremely im- portant. Help to bring someone back home to their heart. Be the friend that can help someone feel found. Joyce & Barry Vissell, a nurse/therapist and psychiatrist couple since 1964, are counselors near Santa Cruz, CA, who are passionate about conscious relationship and personal-spiritual growth. They are the authors of 9 books. Call 831-684-2299 for further information on counseling sessions by phone, on-line, or in person, their books, recordings or their schedule of talks and workshops. Visit their web site at SharedHeart.org for their free monthly e- heartletter, their updated schedule, and inspiring past articles on many topics about relationship and living from the heart.
of Chicago campus in Hyde Park (on the south side of the city) after graduating from high school. I began taking classes at Roosevelt University, an urban college in the heart of downtown. Most of Hyde Park was unique within Chicago and possibly the country at the time, because it was racially integrated. While students in other parts of the country such as Berkeley (California) were focused on opposing and ending the Viet Nam War, the battle that unfolded in Chicago entailed trying to end racism and racial segregation. There was a huge turnout when Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a march for racial justice in Chicago in 1965. Roosevelt University was also racially integrated, in addition to having a large percentage of foreign students and an environment that fostered intellectual and cultural inquiry and academic rigor. It was established in 1945 with the moral and financial support from former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and academic support from professors who had resigned from the Central YMCA college in the downtown after the college adopted quotas for the number of Black and Jewish students to be admitted. Roosevelt was expensive, but it had the best employment office in the city. Roosevelt’s mission was to enable anyone willing to work hard
This pandemic is causing a lot of isolation for people, especially if they are following the guidelines and staying home. But in the words of this song we need to reach out our hand and ask for support and help. We need to trust that when we ask for help, for love or for connection, some- one will come running with that love. Mr. Rogers always told the children in his audience that when they need help, they should look for the helpers, and they will always be there. And we can concentrate on the Divine Helpers that can be felt but not seen. We can count on our Holy Mother and Heavenly Father to help us come back into our sense of being loved. One of my favorite things to do during this period of challenge is to sit quietly all alone in a rocking chair or comfortable chair and wrap a soft blanket around myself. And as I rock slowly back and forth, I imagine the arms of the Holy Mother around me, holding me just like a baby or small child. And as I am rocking, I imagine Her saying to me, “Come into my arms and I will give you rest and peace. I love you. I am taking care of you. I am guiding you on the right path in life. All is well.” I say those words to myself over and over until I can really feel and believe them and I know that I am deeply loved. Some- times it helps to put my hand over my
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago by Daniel Kay Hertz 2018; Belt Publishing (Ohio); $16.95 164 pp (PB); ISBN: 978-1-04874- 209-2 As the city’s black population grew— from about 40,000 in 1910 to nearly 280,000 in 1940— whites undertook a multi-pronged campaign to ghettoize these new Chicagoans. Property owners wrote legal covenants that prohibited future owners from selling to black people; neighbors and tenants openly pressured landlords not to rent to them. Where these efforts failed, many white people were ready to enforce segregation with violence. From 1917 to 1921, a black home was bombed on average every twenty days. –Excerpted from The Battle of Lincoln Park Around the early 1960s, Baltimore (Maryland) was the most segregated city in the United States; and Chicago (Illinois) was a close second. I grew up in segregated Chicago neighborhoods before moving to the University
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