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A smile, A generosity of spirit. Last week some of us celebrated Juneteenth, today I want to celebrate this woman – every woman in our past who found joy, laughter, good lovin’, deep faith and satisfaction – regardless of the sharp realities they faced. God, we ask for that grace, that elegance to always seek health and fulfillment despite the stress of reconciling our history with your Love. This Juneteenth, we release that stress. The stress that writer Opal Palmer Adisa said makes us “look so angry” and “walk like we’ve got bricks in our bags.” The stress that is “hemmed into our dresses, pressed into our hair, mixed into our perfume and painted on our fingers. Stress from the deferred dreams, the stress not voiced; stress from the broken promises, the blatant lies; stress from always being at the bottom, from never being thought beautiful, from always being taken for granted, taken advantage of; stress from being a black woman in White America”. …150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, we release it. Today, as we remember Juneteenth, we take a deeper inhale and an epic exhale. We breathe, let our shoulders down. We walk a little taller. With unrelenting love and commitment to one another’s well-being, we release it. In God’s name.  We commit to move forward and embracing life as we live it today!  Cheers to all of those who paved that path we now travel…………………