A few months ago we started wondering if we might be able to spark relationship building and solidarity by mailing the following letter to good solid Savannah people. One letter per week, 52 weeks a year. Play that out by 10 years, then 100 years… Dear Michelle, I hope this finds you well. I am sending this letter
» Read moreTed Turner and Henry Aaron took center stage at the Georgia Historical Society Annual Dinner this weekend. These men are Georgians. They are friends. They are men who spent the first part of their lives accomplishing impressive personal goals. Now, with the benefit of age and experience, both have come to see service to others as their highest call.
» Read moreI recently attended the Florida Winter Pastor’s School at Stetson University in Deland, Florida to hear farmer and author Wendell Berry. My friend the Reverend Enoch Hendry of Trinity United Methodist Church in Savannah invited me to attend, reminding me that I introduced him to Berry’s writing more than 25 years ago. There were about 200 pastors in attendance from
» Read moreStories change the world. We love telling stories here at Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy. In preparing to tell the Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community story for the January 5th event at the Sentient Bean, I started to think about the difference in storymaking and storytelling. Storymaking is a mixture of moments of clarity surrounded by times of confusion and
» Read more“Men and women have shaved heads and are lying on the floor. It’s just like the pictures you see of the institutions in the 1950s.” Ashley and I spent a Thursday and Friday in Athens with citizen advocacy coordinators from around Georgia. We all get together four or five times a year for what we call “Think and Drink.”
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