Be Prepared

Be prepared, not scared



                                           Photography by Deborah Martel Rogers, Bakersfield, CA, 2020

     We are living in very unique times. This has always been the case, but we all  probably got caught in our unique lives, and forgot about looking at each other in the eye, until one day we were reminded that the power of we is more empowering than the power of I.
     We then began to see how, although some people continued to focus on themselves, so many others who chose to, like Mr. Rogers, look at the helpers in the back, the good people who continue  to believe in the human race, in the power of the human spirit.
     If you are like me, you  are going to faith it, dance it, cry through it, laugh at it on its very face, and show, one more time, that we will kneel down to pray, only to stand up stronger and better than before.

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