30 years Today
I started this as a post for Facebook, but then realized that if I am going to do this, then I want to do this in its entirety and make it fully accessible and so here it is. Thank you, if you are here, for bearing witness. (Scan down) "And holy is the woman who put on her suit, who stood in the courtroom and told the truth. Of the light and the dark and the world as it is…” Abigail Bengson from the song Sovereignty Hymn * 30 years ago today, March 18, 1991, I was a 13-year-old girl. I was a 13-year-old girl wearing black stretchy leggings with stirrups, a blue and black striped shirt, a white sweatshirt, black want-to-be Keds, and a purple flowered one-shoulder-strap bag. The bag didn’t have a zipper but was knotted at the top like a wizard’s pouch filled with magic and potions, though my bag instead was filled