I haven’t seen a hummingbird for weeks, maybe months. Monday as I was putting my camera and backpack in the hatch of the car, I looked up to see a female Ruby-throated Hummingbird first check the front yard, then zip over to the feeder on the porch and then over the roof toward the backyard where there are three more feeders. It’s the second time I’ve seen him in the past couple weeks. Oh – that beautiful male Eastern Towhee at the top of the post – I encountered him briefly right off the trail. The later-week predictions of rain have disappeared. We are in the middle of a hot, dry spell again. I paid the Chicago Portage a visit Monday and before that on Saturday, when the morning temperatures were much cooler, but decided to stay home yesterday, worked in the yard for brief periods, and gave my recuperating knee a rest. We are here for our families and children.I began writing this post while I was sitting here with the sun pouring through the half-closed slats of the blinds, the curse of facing east in the morning, artificially cooled by the fans and air conditioning going more often than I’d like to maintain an inside temperature of 80 degrees. We are talking about female bodied lives, immigrant lives, black lives, young lives.įirst 5 San Mateo County stands united with our communities- those reeling from the trauma of gun violence, those who are scared, and those who are taking action to protect their bodies and their choices. We celebrate and protect it, in its present and existing form. When we prioritize life, it means that we love and honor it. It includes the right of mothers to bring children into the world on their own terms, the rights of children to learn without a threat of traumatic violence in their schools, and the rights of communities, especially communities of color, to conduct their lives without the looming peril of being ravaged by mass shootings. The right to life means the right to safety. We want our children to grow into people, with the opportunities to choose how they thrive, with the rights to their own lives. Creating success for every child is about constructing a nurturing and limitless future that we hope to leave the next generation. Our vision of success for every child means that children should have the opportunity to grow up with security, safety, stability and respect from the first days of their lives.
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