Nothing we like better than a great morning at Idelwild Park! Their kids area is my favorite in our community. Well planned, lots of jungle gyms, easy parking! Many thanks to Vanessa for capturing our girls at play. Billie Skye and Cassidy are fast friends who sometimes look at one another and crack themselves up while other times play on opposit ends of the slides...but they know the other is right there!
Joining Rites of Passage and Empowerment (ROPE) has been key in helping us find community out here in the Berkshires. No sugar coating- this county is both white, rural, conservative, racist and full of theatre, music, the outdoors, and pockets of loving, open-minded people. Massachusetts may be the most liberal state in the US, but we are far from Boston. Here, minutes from New York and Vermont, the sounds of performative equity can be heard from the tone deaf school administrators who "don't see color" and have voiced that "race was not an issue till we brought it up", to the lack of representation in politics, restaurants, stores, and general day to day. We have lived in places across the country, and have yet to stumble upon a place that felt fully welcoming. I don't say this to complain, it is merely a statement of my lived experience thus far and an acknowledgement of the work it takes as a Black woman to make friends, have meaningful relationships, g...
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