Good Trouble and I Am Enough

Two Events happened in the past week which give material for our inspiration

Wednesday Morning Dialogue, March 12, 2025

First, Friday, March 7 marked the 60th anniversary of the march for voters’ rights in Selma, Alabama.  Many of us have lived long enough to remember the bravery of those marchers and the risk they took.  The late John Lewis, who was then a Black activist and later went on to serve 40 years in the US House of Representatives, was beaten so badly by racist police officers that his skull was fractured.  He coined the phrase “good trouble,” and encouraged all of us to get into good trouble if a situation warranted it.  He is one of my heroes and an inspiration to me.

March 8, 2025 marked International Women’s Day, a day for all of us to be mindful of what an indomitable force for good resides in us women, especially when we work together for a common cause.

The poet and author Anna Quindlen said, “After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought ‘I am enough.’”

Eleanor Roosevelt made the same point more succinctly when she said, “A woman is like a teabag—you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”

So this morning my message to you is:  Know that you ARE enough.  Access your inner teabag and tap your inner strength so that when “good trouble” finds you, you will see it as an opportunity, not as a catastrophe. ~ WMD member Verna Adams