Choose Diversity

“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”

― bell hooks

Why are so many people afraid of something different?

The fear of trans folks… the fear of gay folks… the fear of immigrants… the fear of different skin colors…

You need only look to nature to see why diversity means survival.

You need only google “benefits of diversity” to see so many proven facts on how the more we open up to what is different, the more successful and strong we become.

Such limited, narrow, dangerous, boring thinking to fear anything different.

Here we are in 2022 with technology at our finger tips, and instead we stay in out dated dominator, hierarchal ways of living.

It does not have to be this way. At any moment, we can all choose to diversify our thoughts, emotions, communities, businesses, gardens and the world.

“A lot of different flowers make a bouquet.”

-Islamic Proverb