“It’s brilliant!” followed by a woof, says Honey, the girl dog.
I thought I studied American History enough to know what happened the last 200 years or so from those textbooks. But I was wrong. Figuring it’s so short compared to say … European or Asian history but … I had no idea until I heard these podcasts.
This is a podcast started by a friend who was very receptive to therapeutic yoga sessions with me, being so receptive, she became one of my subjects:), right in the lovely sun room. Being creative and super intelligent, she totally got the value of yoga. Anyway, here are some amazing stories and Kim does such a fine job narrating something that might have gotten overlooked, lost or forgotten. She brings these women’s voice back to life as it’s timely as ever. Most of the stories are heartbreaking and painful but … all the more, poignant. Had no idea she’s such a history buff who would turn her passion into … something this moving, this tangible, so appreciated by a growing audience.
After hearing about the Slave Girl, I could not help but realize how good we have it no matter how some may frame their fate negatively. If some of you are depressed or feeling blue or whatever the dark clouds of moods may be, when you listen to Her Voice Echos … you realize that we are actually very lucky and don’t even know it. We can make a change. We are not slaves – maybe just slaves to money, fame, ego, etc. but not in a sense that these disenfranchised poor women were. We own ourselves; nobody “owns” us. We are free.So free that we don’t even exercise the hard-won voting rights or appreciate the fact that we can study whatever we wish to learn.
Here it is – Thank you Kim ! I can see why there are thousands of Likes within the few months she’s started the podcast … it’s just so relevant today still. While anyone woman or even a man would find Kim’s podcast educational, I think teachers of history and social studies at high school level and above, can really use these podcasts in their classrooms. It’s more real than the textbooks and allows the students to realize as I did … today’s freedom was won over time – it wasn’t something that was a given. It’s been ugly and dreadful BUT … there’s progress due to courageous women in this country’s history. Kim is right. Their voices should be heard. America had come such a long way, having elected such intelligent and graceful African American as a President for the last 8 years. (We were at the crusp of electing America’s first woman President …but ?) It was just … epic when you realize all the struggles and suffering many had overcome to rise above. All is not peachy. There’s still a lot of pain and suffering as I hear of another friend involved in stopping human trafficking … had no idea, there’s still so much injustice.
Keep Tahoe Blue:)
