Sometimes, a creative moment happens that resonates across a wide range of powerful themes. Isolde Fair was asked, as part of her music class, to write a song based on excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s concession speech at the end of the 2016 Presidential race. Fair’s music is a powerful evocation of what Langston Hughes once called a dream deferred.
While Hughes spoke for African Americans, his powerful language works equally well for generations of women who, for now, are seeing something very very different in the White House than what they had worked and hoped for. This, in turn, has created a whole new poltical awakening in America.
While American women remain divided across race and class, across religion and political parties, this young women’s song reminds us that Hillary Clinton’s legacy will resonate far beyond the petty gotcha politics which marked the 2016 campaign.
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Want to change the world? Join the Good Men Project Parenting and Relational Literacy Social Interest Group.
Here at the Good Men Project, we feel it is up to us to create a society of greater connection and community. Part of this process involves teaching our young sons and daughters to connect emotionally, using the skills they are born with to create richer fuller lives.
Our children are social animals. In isolation they wither, in connection they thrive. This is the core truth of being human. Yet, in many ways, our culture actively suppresses our children’s relationship building capacities. When we grow our children’s emotional capacities, they (and we) are better able to manage conflict, grow self confidence, and see others’ points of view. In fact, how well we observe, interpret and engage in our relationships is central to all our successes in life.
As parents and partners, we can create this powerful change in the world.
Dr. Saliha Bava and I would like to invite you to join us for The Good Men Project’s newest Social Interest Group: Growing Our Children’s Relational Intelligence. We will meet by telephone on Thursday Nights at 7:30 PM EST / 4:30 PM Pacific, starting on March 2, 2017. To join us, RSVP HERE.
This five part series will explore the pressures in our culture that suppress our children’s natural capacities for creating and caring for relationships. We will be sharing playful and loving ways you can insure your children have the capacities to grow and maintain a lifetime of authentic caring relationships. Date and times are: March 2, 9, 16, 23 and April 6.
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Read more about growing our children’s emotional capacities here:
How to Help Our Children Create a Lifetime of Vibrant Relationships
Want a Parenting or Couples Superpower? Listen With Curiosity
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Beautiful moving song, brought tears to my eyes. Thinking about my daughter, granddaughters, all all the children we love.