Shine the Light on Domestic Violence (why this blog is purple): Did you know that October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month?
One in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. It can affect anyone regardless of race, background, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status.
All too often, it is an issue that stays behind closed doors. But we are using this month to bring it out in the open.
Tonight, we’re turning Times Square and the Con Ed Tower purple.* I’m co-hosting this event, called Shine the Light on Domestic Violence, with the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence, my Domestic Violence Task Force and other partners.
To find out more, visit my Shine the Light website. You can learn how to join us tomorrow night and find a wealth of valuable resources about domestic violence.
*If we can turn Times Square and the Con Ed Tower purple, it only makes sense to turn this blog purple, too. More purple means more people thinking about domestic violence and what we can all do to stop it!
“when conducting business she would lie about where she’s from / saying life is how it is, not how it was.” [conor oberst]
remember how
these words have never been spoken but metered out through keys to hang in space maybe you’ll speak them or maybe our bodies will evolve/ until we emit only Still Vibrations; Chords stay in the throat instead of dying in the air because I’ll just text you from the other room- if i have kids i’ll teach them to hold a pen before they learn to type not Reactionary/ just Reverent towards the mortality of inkandpaper we give more weight to wisdom with a lifespan, projecting our humanity on objects we hope to leave behind now we clutter truly the last frontier with our virtual lives and the Livingforever turns out to taste pretty cheap.






