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Black Lives Here: Muna Shrestha is living a life she had never dreamed possible

March 22, 2022March 21, 2022 4 Comments

By MIMI LILIEFELDT Most of us think we know how lucky we are. Aside from a few curveballs our lives have turned out pretty much as we’d expected. A smaller but growing number, however, are living lives they never could’ve dreamt were possible. Muna Shrestha, owner of Glitter Spa on Kingston Road near Lawlor Avenue, […]

Black Lives Here: Changing the world starts with education

February 22, 2022February 21, 2022 1 Comment

By MIMI LILIEFELDT How many of us are lucky enough to have found our calling? The strong inner pull towards a career, craft or act of service is elusive for most, but a few fortunate souls know who they are and what they are supposed to do from an early age. In elementary school Jamar […]

Black Lives Here: Art is among the ways Beach business owner Lily Yee helps people communicate

January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 0 Comments

By MIMI LILIEFELDT Art has always brought beauty and joy into our lives. It has also been used as a way to communicate and tell stories. It is widely accepted that art is a form of expression and a tool for bringing people together. Even when opinions differ, it doesn’t matter as much as the […]

Black Lives Here: Continuing the conversation with Ingrid Palmer on the importance of believing in yourself and helping others

December 14, 2021December 13, 2021 0 Comments

By MIMI LILIEFELDT Last month we met Ingrid Palmer, a truly inspirational member of our community. If you haven’t read the first part of her story, we covered how Ingrid, a Black woman, grew up visually impaired (later diagnosed legally blind), a survivor of sexual abuse and went from foster care to living in a […]

Black Lives Here: A conversation with the inspirational Ingrid Palmer

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021 0 Comments

By MIMI LILIEFELDT Every now and then, if you’re lucky, you meet a truly inspirational person. In the last year and a half, we have all been treading water, living with uncertainty, learning new ways of being, and frankly it’s been exhausting. Most of us haven’t had the time or the inclination to think about […]

Black Lives Here: What does it take to be able to sit in the ‘fancy’ chair?

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021

By MIMI LILIEFELDT Everyone has their own definition of success. For many it’s financial security, for some it’s creative fulfillment, and for others it’s a culmination of factors. For Dr. Mary Choi, a well-known Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, a symbol of success is a fancy chair. Dr. Mary is a busy mother of four, and […]

Black Lives Here: Beach business owner worried about family in Afghanistan

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021

By MIMI LILIEFELDT Over the last month, the world watched in alarm as the Taliban took over Afghanistan. For most of us, the realities of Afghanistan’s history are no more than “news stories” that never quite touch our own microcosm. Lately we talk about all the ways that we are privileged, almost any one of […]

Black Lives Here: We must not be silent when faced with racism

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021

By MIMI LILIEFELDT In a perfect world there is no racism; no inequalities, no injustices, nobody has to stand up for anyone else because there’s nothing to stand up for. In this utopian world we are all equals and treated as such. As it happens, we live here, in the real world. Our world is […]

Black Lives Here: A reflection on one year of writing the column and some of the words left unsaid

July 20, 2021July 19, 2021

By MIMI LILIEFELDT July marks the one-year anniversary of Black Lives Here. Writing this column has been a journey of taking small steps toward ending racism, opening the conversation within our Beach community, and self-discovery for many, including myself. During this year of meeting all these fascinating people and hearing their stories, I realized there […]

Black Lives Here: With help from daughters, Nella Cramer is reflecting on her past and future

June 15, 2021June 14, 2021

By MIMI LILIEFELDT Many people of various cultures and religions may not recognize it, but they live with generational trauma. Generational trauma starts with an event, and then over decades, the pain, coping mechanisms, and ways of seeing the world, get passed down to the next generation. As kids, most of us didn’t think of […]

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