You may need one or more of these poems today https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html.

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“There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the other person, but because if you don’t speak, they have changed you.” --Mary Quinn, 2010

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I come back to this post every so often. We can't win with poetry alone, but without poetry what world are we hoping for? https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

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Explore the Awareness & Advocacy section to learn how caregivers can find their voice, share their experiences, and inspire positive change in the caregiving community. 🌿
Read more: https://www.onecaregiversjourney.com/awareness-advocacy/

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Excerpt from "And Then It's Exponential" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

"Then the bars of that cage
bend enough for the most
courageous part of the self
to slip through. I’m not
saying it isn’t scary.
But this is how
one becomes two."

https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/05/25/and-then-its-exponential/

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"And in very real ways, the inability to be with difference mitigates against the ability to create social movements that have an enduring quality. We cannot build movements that are exclusively based on what we’re opposed to." --John Paul Lederach

https://wagingnonviolence.org/metta/podcast/when-toxic-polarization-becomes-civil-war-john-paul-lederach/

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Every so often I'm asked about how I became a bike advocate. Since it arose from lessons learned from my mom, I'm sharing this blog post on Mother's Day. Mom's been gone for years and her spirit lives on. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-i-came-to-be-bike-advocate.html
And this one, on things she taught me: https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2009/09/3-things-my-mother-taught-me.html.

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" There’s nothing left except to try."
—Mrs. Whatsit in A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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"Revolution" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

"there they were, singing and showing up despite,
and this was the moment that made me believe
in the path—not just the grand marches toward freedom,
but also the thin trails marked with courage and creativity,
small moments I can follow like bread crumbs
till this country again feels like home."

https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/04/05/revolution-2/

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