Each day this past week we have worked on establishing a routine, a new schedule. In the mornings after Sesame Street we venture outside. There is so much to see and do! We eventually meet Matt for lunch at his building, then come back home for nap time. I usually try to clean while they sleep and once awake we read and play some more. When the weather cooperates we hit up the fountains or sprinkler park hidden by the Marianos on Randolph! These pictures are from my phone. Not the greatest quality, but cute all the same!
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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