Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Last night my daughter took us to see Michelle Obama speak at a nearby arena.  It was packed with women of color and maybe 10% men.  It was women hear us roar, all right.  She was down home and frank, as if she was in a living room with us.  She was inspiring, funny and honest.  We all admire her for her determination to keep her life as normal as possible and protect her daughters.  She didn't pull any punches.  She told us if we didn't like what our daughters and granddaughters were facing in this world, to step up to the plate and fight to make things better.  We can't just sit back and bemoan pay inequity, sexual harassment, few women in top positions in any profession or in Congress.  Because it takes all of us, and especially it takes women to care enough for young women to see that they don't face everything we put up with.  Don't leave it to the men.  They tend to be comfortable with the way things are and ignore the rest.  And if we don't care about our daughters and granddaughters then we are perpetuating the action of not caring enough about ourselves.  We are valuable and necessary in society.  Our perspectives are often different and fresh, and our social skills more fine tuned.  Are we going to sit back and wait to be rescued any longer?  I surely hope not.  We know how that goes.