Loved to read about Rashunda's older Black women role models! Also loved "I’ve finally matured enough to realize that no one cares if I embrace my calling or not." Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. When I thought about pursuing a Yoga teacher training in my mid 40s I had doubts like: Should a serious journalist with a Ph.D. in economics become a Yoga teacher? WHY NOT? Everybody knows that I love Yoga! What's wrong with being a Yoga teacher? And it turned out, many people told me what a great project this is, especially the people that I care about.
Yes! The thing about being surrounded by older women who were totally fabulous growing up and so not realizing that getting old was supposed to be a bad thing until you actually got older. As she notes, this is particularly prevalent in the Black community. But I grew up in D.C., where all my teachers and crossing guards and principals were gorgeous, stylish, older Black women and all I wanted to do was be like them. We all need older women to claim their own vibrancy because it changes the experience for younger women. Whatever the culture may say they *know* getting older is beautiful.
Rashunda Trimble is my twin! I’m her mixed race half Euro-American half Indigenous-American twin, but her twin nonetheless. She articulated what I’ve been trying to explain to people around me about Indigenous culture and age: we don’t obsess on aging or an age we revere elders and keep growing. We don’t think of age as a “Should I wear jeans after 50?” kind of thing. My Euro-American mom was negative about aging despite living in good health to 94. My Indigenous dad was ever positive about life, the new, and people. Age wasn’t a factor. I take after my dad. I also wear black, white, navy, and gray, and ignore the people who tell me to add a color because I do not want to add a color. Thank you Rashunda. You are an inspiration.
I enjoyed Rashunda's interview. Such a beautiful young lady. She is refreshingly open and honest. I'm approaching a quarter of a century and have similar feelings and experiences. Funny how that works. I'm loving my life and the freedom to be me. I look forward to reading about and hearing from her when she reaches my age.
yeah I know— screaming how beautiful and fabulous and relevant we still are, as if people need to be reminded is superfluous to those who know it already and a waste of time for those who don’t (or who deny it) — let our work and bearing and actions show it.
Loved to read about Rashunda's older Black women role models! Also loved "I’ve finally matured enough to realize that no one cares if I embrace my calling or not." Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. When I thought about pursuing a Yoga teacher training in my mid 40s I had doubts like: Should a serious journalist with a Ph.D. in economics become a Yoga teacher? WHY NOT? Everybody knows that I love Yoga! What's wrong with being a Yoga teacher? And it turned out, many people told me what a great project this is, especially the people that I care about.
Yes! The thing about being surrounded by older women who were totally fabulous growing up and so not realizing that getting old was supposed to be a bad thing until you actually got older. As she notes, this is particularly prevalent in the Black community. But I grew up in D.C., where all my teachers and crossing guards and principals were gorgeous, stylish, older Black women and all I wanted to do was be like them. We all need older women to claim their own vibrancy because it changes the experience for younger women. Whatever the culture may say they *know* getting older is beautiful.
Rashunda Trimble is my twin! I’m her mixed race half Euro-American half Indigenous-American twin, but her twin nonetheless. She articulated what I’ve been trying to explain to people around me about Indigenous culture and age: we don’t obsess on aging or an age we revere elders and keep growing. We don’t think of age as a “Should I wear jeans after 50?” kind of thing. My Euro-American mom was negative about aging despite living in good health to 94. My Indigenous dad was ever positive about life, the new, and people. Age wasn’t a factor. I take after my dad. I also wear black, white, navy, and gray, and ignore the people who tell me to add a color because I do not want to add a color. Thank you Rashunda. You are an inspiration.
I enjoyed Rashunda's interview. Such a beautiful young lady. She is refreshingly open and honest. I'm approaching a quarter of a century and have similar feelings and experiences. Funny how that works. I'm loving my life and the freedom to be me. I look forward to reading about and hearing from her when she reaches my age.
yeah I know— screaming how beautiful and fabulous and relevant we still are, as if people need to be reminded is superfluous to those who know it already and a waste of time for those who don’t (or who deny it) — let our work and bearing and actions show it.
Great interview. Rashunda has a fun attitude and I love her interests.
LOVE ♥️ thanks for sharing with us Rashunda and keep on rocking black :))