As many of us are, I'm thinking of Maya Angelou today. I'm remembering one night in particular, maybe fifteen years ago when she was M.C.'ing an event -- I think for the Childrens' Defense Fund, at the National Building Museum in Washington -- and a man in the third row gasped and collapsed while Maya was speaking. Maya never lost her gracious, present, and peaceful tone as she asked all of us to just stay still, and hold a space for the man's healing; assuring us that those who need to help him...
As many of us are, I'm thinking of Maya Angelou today. I'm remembering one night in particular, maybe fifteen years ago when she was M.C.'ing an event -- I think for the Childrens' Defense Fund, at the National Building Museum in Washington -- and a man in the third row gasped and collapsed while Maya was speaking. Maya never lost her gracious, present, and peaceful tone as she asked all of us to just stay still, and hold a space for the man's healing; assuring us that those who need to help him...
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