![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve learned, been challenged, engaged in introspection, and tried very hard to inhabit human points of view that I’ve really neglected, no matter how worldly, kind or empathetic I think I’ve been or try to be. Some may ask: Why women of color for my reading focus? The more appropriate question is really, “Why wouldn’t I focus on reading works by women of color?” They are my family, friends and work colleagues. If we can’t imagine one another, how will we get through these next few years?” It’s late in 2017, and the situation’s desperate. ![]() As I commented at the time, “My perspectives have broadened, my eyes are clearer and my heart is more full.” Incidentally, my favorite books from that year were (in author alphabetical order): Useful Phrases for Immigrants by May-lee Chai, Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith, My Old Faithful by Yang Huang, So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo, and What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan.Ī quote from that article, which resonated with me then, feels like it has even more urgency now: “Let’s read more broadly let’s try inhabiting one another’s wildly varied, entirely human points of view. ![]() I met the challenge to read each of the books on her list that effort expanded my reading universe – it has been inexorably changed for the better. ![]()
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