2017 was a hard year for everyone: ailing elderly parents, issues with our children and/or partners, problems in work or finding it, or coming down with sometimes illness as serious as cancer (shoutout to B).
As I have repeated time and time again: #bwia #BlackwomeninAlabama. If they could move forward in adversity, anyone can.
But the only way we can get through it is to turn to our communities (often we have more than one). I want to take this time, perhaps again, to thank friends, old (Bridge, SCA, BiWoT, WCC, et. al.) and new, for all the help they gave me during the crisis with my mother last May, among other things.
Also, thanks to my new friends, from Women’s Drumming Circle to the #broomwomen, for introducing me to a new way of looking at my life, from the participating in the arts to the moontimes.
2017 has been a time for me make decisions as to how I will move forward as I look up closer to fifty. Things are looking good.
Kristine Maitland 