“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” ~ Zora
Neale Hurston“Freedom From” or “Freedom To” . .
. From Hurston's seminal novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God that
speaks to how we can learn to love ourselves and others . .
. To Butler's powerful morality tale, Parable of the
Talents, together we will learn how to forge community through
exploring, expanding and enhancing “love and relationships”,
engaging in themes such as: “alienation and transcendence; violence
and spirituality; slavery and freedom; and separation and
community”. "There’s a song that wants to sing itself through us,
and we’ve just got to be available.” ~ Joanna Macy Join us to
read, write and reflect together upon these intertwined human concepts
found in works of two award-winning female novelists . . . who just
happen to be Black. Their novels harbor strong, creative and
intellectually curious female protagonists. Women who are committed to
building inclusive communities and open-minded enough to live beyond
the bounds of “polite society” of the past, present and future.
The compelling ancestral voices of these two novelists call to the
Divine Feminine within each of us, asking that we come together and
“make it right" in a society whose very fabric has been "torn
asunder" from the very beginning”. “Consider - We are born, not
with purpose, but with potential.” Octavia Butler
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