Find a way

I'm finding new ways

to hear from the inside out

New ways to find space

to create what's beautiful

from within.

I'm finding new ways

to share what I'm hearing

to manifest in

the space that I've cleared.

Have you found a way...

do you hear your voice, 

did you clear the space,

to share all the beauty

from within....If not,

Find a way....

© 2015 BrendaGale

Spring into action

Spring ~ the time when all things bloom and change is in the air.  Although spring brings with it the discomforts of pollen and other irritants, the simple thought of colors of nature, birds chirping and tossing of heavier garments makes it all worthwhile.

What are you tossing during this new season?  Are you on track with your resolutions for this year?  We're practically an entire quarter into the new year and some people are still struggling to get in motion and take action on what they 'promised' they would accomplish this time around.

Now is the perfect time to take inventory of those things which aren't working....which aren't adding any value to your purpose, which are weighing you down and causing chaos to abound in your life.  Rid yourself of anything that doesn't add value to any area of purpose in your dwelling, being....life.  Re-calibrate your plans....make the needed adjustments and forge ahead, but don't you dare give up.

Spring ---- Yes, spring into action and do some soul-cleansing.....Be honest with yourself and tell others the truth, so they might free themselves from what's holding them back as well.

Let's get on track and stay on track and Spring into a wonderful season of being the very best at catapulting our goals into full gear and staying in our lanes to finish a grand 2015.  Happy Spring!

Be Still....Seek Peace

Peace provides the foundation for all else to come in this life.  If your life revolves around rush, rush, rush and anxiety-filled days, it's hard to hear clear instructions from the core of where all answers lie.

Slow down today; Be still and listen....quiet your mind and soothe your spirit in the things that bring complete relaxation to your mind, body and spirit.

It's impossible to gain clarity in this life, with all the hustle and bustle and noise unless you are intentional about slowing down, getting quiet and simply listening.

Gain Peace....and then move, with assurance, in the direction of clear instructions and purpose.

50th Anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday'

This Day in History: March 7, 1965 - Marks 50 years since the attack on protesters, remembered as 'Bloody Sunday' -The march gained the nickname "Bloody Sunday" after its 600 marchers were attacked at the Edmund Pettus Bridge after leaving Selma; --- The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Selma Voting Rights Movement and led to the passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960's American Civil Rights Movement. Activists publicized the three protest marches to walk the 54-mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery as showing the desire of black American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression.

A series of discriminatory requirements and practices disenfranchised most of the millions of African Americans across the South since the turn of the century. The African American group known as The Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) launched a voters registration campaign in Selma in 1963. Joined by organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), they began working that year in a renewed effort to register black voters. Finding resistance by white officials to be intractable, even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation, the DCVL invited Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the activists of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to join them. SCLC brought many prominent civil rights and civic leaders to Selma in January 1965. Local and regional protests began, with 3,000 people arrested by the end of February.

On February 26, 1965, activist and deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson died after being mortally shot several days earlier by a state trooper during a peaceful march in Marion, Alabama. To defuse and refocus the community's outrage, SCLC Director of Direct Action James Bevel, who was directing SCLC's Selma Voting Rights Movement, called for a march of dramatic length, from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. Bevel had been working on his Alabama Project for voting rights since late 1963.

The first march took place on March 7, 1965. Bevel, Amelia Boynton, and others helped organize it. The march gained the nickname "Bloody Sunday" after its 600 marchers were attacked at the Edmund Pettus Bridge after leaving Selma; state troopers and county posse attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas. Law enforcement beat Boynton unconscious; media publicized a picture of her lying wounded on the bridge worldwide.

The second march took place March 9. Troopers, police, and marchers confronted each other, but when the troopers stepped aside to let them pass, King led the marchers back to the church. He was seeking protection by a federal court for the march. That night, a white group beat and murdered civil rights activist James Reeb, a Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston, who had come to Selma to march in the second march. Many other clergy and sympathizers from across the country also attended the second march.

The violence of "Bloody Sunday" and of Reeb's death led to a national outcry and some acts of civil disobedience, targeting both the Alabama state and federal governments. The protesters demanded protection for the Selma marchers and a new federal voting rights law to enable African Americans to register and vote without harassment. President Lyndon Johnson, whose administration had been working on a voting rights law, held a televised joint session of Congress on March 15 to ask for the bill's introduction and passage.

With Governor Wallace refusing to protect the marchers, President Johnson committed to do so. The third march started March 21. Protected by 2,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army, 1,900 members of the Alabama National Guard under Federal command, and many FBI agents and Federal Marshals, the marchers averaged 10 miles (16 km) a day along U.S. Route 80, known in Alabama as the "Jefferson Davis Highway". The marchers arrived in Montgomery on March 24 and at the Alabama State Capitol on March 25. With thousands having joined the campaign, 25,000 people entered the capital city that day in support of voting rights.

The route is memorialized as the Selma To Montgomery Voting Rights Trail, and is a U.S. National Historic Trail. #Selma50 #BloodySunday  

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life; no one but you yourself alone.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche