Middle-Pause Pump-Priming Prompt
In Honor of Women’s History Month, Who Would You Like to Lift Up?
Is there someone you’ve wondered about?
Now’s your chance.
Every year I try to go deeper than the sidebars and boxes in our history books, or newspapers, and bring to light someone I know little or nothing about.
Let’s face it, our history and stories have often been buried. And if we don’t dig them up and share them, who will?
So here’s this week’s Middle-Pause Pump-Prmimg Prompt: In honor of Women’s History Month who would you like to lift up? Is there someone you’ve wondered about?
If so, you can look them up and share their story here. Like I’m doing right now.
Sunday night we watched the Oscars.
When it came to the Best Actress in a Leading Role award, I rooted for Lily Gladstone. She plays Mollie Burkhart in director Martin Scorsese’s tragic historical drama, Killers of the Flower Moon. Gladstone is the fourth-ever Indigenous person nominated in the Best Actress category. Had she won, she would have been the first to ever receive the honor.
That went to Emily Stone for her role as Bella Baxer in Poor Things.
