by Minga Claggett-Borne | Dec 31, 2011 | Light In Action
I hear the bells on Christmas morn. I see pigeons flying in a sun kissed sky around the tower of Boston’s mosque. I smell latkes and bagels toasting in the crisp air. The Channuak candles are lit at sundown. We live in a land with freedom of religion. I have known...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Dec 29, 2011 | Rolling by the River's Edge
Did you come across Cambridge’s beauty queen this week? She is a regal site with a Guy Fawkes mask and leather feet. Strolling by the Charles River in December is feasible while balmy breezes punctuate the NE climate. From pre-dawn to sunset the river hums with hawks,...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Nov 21, 2011 | Inspiration from Sages, Light In Action
At the end of October I learned that Eileen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, along with 2 other women, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman. Johnson Sirleaf is the first elected female African president and Gbowee from Liberia is...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Nov 21, 2011 | Inspiration from Sages
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience 1849 Abby Kelley Foster/Susan B. Anthony/Elizabeth Stanton Mock voting booth for women suffrage 1872 Alice Paul women suffrage 1920 Mahatma Gandhi started satyagraha in India 1910s Salt march 1940s Rosa Parks Civil Rights in...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Nov 21, 2011 | Light In Action, Stopping Violence
I love the idealism of this country. The Declaration of Independence is a creed as much as it is a manifesto. In 4th grade I studied the launching of this nation. We believe in “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Americans proclaimed in its...
