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The Hope I Look For in My Everyday Life

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I heard this interview my son had with Gidon Saks, on Holden's post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XPJb94qpvc It brought tears to my eyes.  The honesty.  The clarity of understanding who we are are as humans.  It speaks for anyone who has ever felt to be judged by anyone else (all of us have in some way, at some time). In   recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.   -Thurgood Marshall, (1908-1993) It shows compassion for anyone marginalized by being who they really are.  Saks has seen years of division of gender and race in his lifetime. Gidon Saks talks, during the interview, on what he saw happening in the 60s and 70s.  He said he lived through decades of political development and most  people felt difference was the least important thing  and that fact we were more the same was going to make us strong for the future. He speaks of this production as being about women taking "ownership of oneself". He expresses