A Big Eyed Fish

Tag: inspiration

  • Go Set a Watchman in Your Home

    Go Set a Watchman in Your Home

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    Rachel Grossman
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    Looking back, it was hardly coincidental that I picked up Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman shortly after DJT was elected to office. It was clearly the catalyst for my first steps of in-the-home activism. Watchman takes place in the 1950s, 20 years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout—now called Jean Louise—returns to her hometown…

  • Getting out of your box

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    Rachel Grossman
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    I’ve been thinking about boxes lately. Like in terms of the old adage “think outside the box.” Each of us has our own box that we operate out of, from which to “think outside.” Those boxes can be of vastly different sizes. To travel to an edge, scale the box wall, and get outside of…

  • Break that control habit!

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    Rachel Grossman
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    Show of hands: who would be significantly unsettled, if not be completely terrified, by the idea of handing over your organizational social account to stranger for a day? Login, password, the whole kit and caboodle? I’m not saying this is you, current hand raiser, but I was reminded that this is still viewed as a highly risky…