Dear Friends, Family, and Fans,
​For some reason any new thing I want to start I plan to start the first of the month. It's like that's the restart button. So I guess I have considered January 1st the super restart. I'd like to change that thought paradigm. Each morning is a new opportunity to refresh, rebirth, renew, replenish.Each morning is an opportunity to wake up new possibilities and continue the work needed to make the nights' dreams realities. So now that I'm awake, happy new day. And yes, I still wish us all an awesome New Year! Let's fill it with love and light instead of the same old recycled resolutions. May God continue to bless us!

Love and realness,
#lindamichellebaron
www.mylindamichellebaron.com

Dear Friends, Family, and Fans,
Surprisingly, I’ve been introduced to some wonderful quotes, adages and sayings on social media. One that really spoke to me admonished us not to worry about putting the Christ in Christmas. It’s more important to put the Christ in Christians. So true. Some of the most judgmental people I know call themselves Christian.
Yet Jesus asked those without sin to cast the first stone.
Not one of us is without sin. It’s only by his grace that we are here. I am so far from the woman I want to be and yet so close to recognizing the God in me. He loves me in-spite of me. I’m so thankful. Even when I don’t act completely in accordance with the intent of the question, I ask
“What would Jesus do?”
Not that I always act in accordance to what I know of His Will, but I am intentionally attempting to do so.
During this season and through every season of our lives, first and foremost, I ask us to bring love to every interaction and decision.
Merry Christmas!!!
Love and realness,
#lindamichellebaron
www.mylindamichellebaron.com

Dear Friends, Family and Fans,
As of this past year I was selected as both chair and director of the Africana Studies Center at York College. We plan to reawaken our presence in both the college and local community. We had an exciting micro lecture series that we will continue in the new year. But now we welcome the gift of Kwanzaa to you and your family. The Africana Studies Center at York and I invite you to this year's
Kwanzaa Celebration Featuring Professor Andrew Jackson, Sunday, December 26th at 3:00pm and again Monday, December 27th at 3:00.
Just a few links.
Here is the video that will be broadcast on the 26th and 27th: https://youtu.be/4FLsFIqggyA
Here are the calendar events:
https://www.york.cuny.edu/center.../aarc/kwanzaa-celebration

​This will be excellent programming that you don't want to miss.
Happy Kwanzaa!!!
God bless you and your family during this season.
Love and realness,
#lindamichellebaron
www.mylindamichellebaron.com

Dear Friends, Family and Fans,
I feel so grateful. Even with all the global disturbances and losses and illnesses around me. Even as I know all of life catches up to all of us…I feel so grateful. It’s the peace and joy of knowing there is a Higher Authority who has me covered. I could believe this. But I step beyond belief to knowing. I love the words of the child’s nighttime prayer, “If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” Every day the possibility of the Lord taking my soul becomes closer and closer to the probability. And yet, "I sing because I’m happy. I sing because I’m free…” And to have this opportunity to share with you, my friends, fans and family is an extra, added bonus. I live my life in the mode of thanksgiving…with a faith that passes understanding. Even as we deal with the loss, and agony of this period when we have been invaded by the horrors of this virus ... even as we deal with unprecedented political turmoil...even as we recognize our own human frailties...let's live our lives so that we can be a blessing to each other. Let's be a reason for someone else to give thanks.
Love and realness,
Lindamichellebaron
www.mylindamichellebaron.com

Dear Friends, Family and Fans,
I woke up with this thought. No people love this country more than we do, in spite of … no need to enummerate.
We are the people and we will be free, unconditionally, unequivocally. One important first step is for America to start to speak the truth to the people. Purge from the cover up and be able to celebrate an independence for ALL of the People!!! Let’s not just unmask after being vaccinated for COVID, let’s unmask by taking a truth serum in order to reveal our true history so we can actually create and celebrate the asperational future promised to us all.

The Lie in the 4th of July

There’s a lie in the 4th of July
We don’t want to see it
So we close one eye
Pretend to be
Land of the free
When so much of the
History is don’t ask don’t tell
Just pretend all is well
Just make believe there’s no there, there
Maybe the ugly will disappear
Cover up with roses,
Supposes and I don’t knowses
History treated like a mystery
Instead of straight up truth
With millions of receipts and centuries
Of proof
You want to use tradition
And laws not to teach it
You think like magic…poof
True history will disappear
Close the other eye
Stay blind to the lie
Turn away?
Then we can celebrate
Independence Day?

Love and realness,
#Lindamichellebaron
www.mylindamichellebaron.com

Dear Friends, Family and Fans,
“Bad times don’t last always.” That is what is keeping me going. I find it difficult to believe that hate will prevail. I had a visceral response to voting this election. I voted early because I had to affirm love as early in the election as possible. I have not considered myself political or religious. I am a believer in the Highest Authority. I believe He sent his son to forgive our sins and to provide a roadmap for us to follow.
That roadmap leads to loving God with all our hearts and loving our neighbor as ourselves. The love, in this time, is missing in action (M.I.A.). It seems to be detoured until the hate filled, self absorbed energy is removed.

“Bad times don’t last always.” And certainly, there was this glimmer of hope that the same country that has discounted, dismissed, disenfranchised and every effort made to decimate and destroy…I believed, there was a glimmer of hope that my people were now able to be seen long enough, and valued long enough to elect a black man…a man with direct lineage to Africa…a man with a Muslim name…not particularly light skin-ed or straight haired, with an straight up, state of the art, ebony wife. I believed we…they…had seen the light. I believed that we…they…had seen the evil of their ways. I believed we had overcome.

So when I had the opportunity to vote early on Saturday, October 24, 2020…I stood on line…that first day possible in New York. I knew the lines would be shorter later in the week. But I needed to vote early to affirm love as early in the election period as possible.

There are a few people that I love and respect who are believers in the current reality of misinformation, and straight up lying that one of their tribe described as endearing. Had this current inhabitant of the White House been on the outside looking in when Barack Hussein Obama was president, and several hundred thousand Americans had died, thousands of business were closed, multiple thousands of jobs were lost, the onslaught of criticism would have made place the president at risk of being lynched. And yet, a person who takes no responsibility for anything negative on his watch and on his practices…and every responsibility for any and everything positive…even that which was built on the insight and intellect of a president who kept this country alive…could win this election.

“Bad times don’t last always.” When I actually voted, and the screen indicated that my ballot had been registered, I cried. My tears were in the belief that so many of us are prayerfully voting so that “Bad times don’t last always.” Please vote for the best in us, the love in us, the God in us!
Love and realness,
#lindamichellebaron
www.mylindamichellebaron.com

Dear Friends, Family and Fans,
I am not a biblical scholar. My only claim to fame regarding the “Good Book” is having read from Genesis to Revelations each year, for three or four years. I should be embarrassed. Each time I read the Bible it feels as if I’m reading it for the first time. Some parts seem familiar, while others, I only know I read because of the notes I made during previous readings. I’m not certain of the names of the individuals I want to reference…or how to pronounce all the names accurately. But I read again and again to gain insight, inspiration, and inner strength.

After I heard of Senator Kamala Harris being selected as vice presidential running mate to past vice president, Joe Biden, I thought of two women in the Bible, Deborah and Jael from the book of Judges. These two women exemplified strength, focus, wisdom and were moved by God to act and lead as He directed. How would these women, guided by God, prepared for their time, be characterized by some of those in power today?

Deborah was: a prophet; the only female judge mentioned in the Old Testament; one who not only inspired the Israelites to a major victory but who was a military leader. Jael, wife of the general Barak, put the final touches on the decisive victory by providing the defeated general, Sisera, shelter, milk and then planting a tent peg in his skull while he slept. How would these women of God, moved by God, be characterized by some of those in power today?

Today, women of substance, character and conviction are being castigated with pejorative terms thrown at them for doing what would be considered admirable if performed by a man.
But what man means for harm, God uses for good. We all know the story of Joseph. His brothers found him too ambitious, his dreams in which the brothers bowed down to him were too much. He was too loved to be allowed to live with them. He was the most beloved by their father, evidenced by Joseph being given the robe of many colors, a manifestation of that love.
The evil done to Joseph actually propelled him into his destiny as God ordained it.

We must prepare for a time such as this. We must call out the evil terms used against those who fight for us…man, woman or child. We must align ourselves with the Ultimate Power. The power of the Lord is here. I feel it in the atmosphere. I am prepared to be called “nasty” or any other despicable term used against those who fight the good fight and get in good trouble. I will vote…by mail, in person, socially distanced, mask on as necessary, or by any means necessary. Do you think I’m a nasty girl?

Don’t forget our children, whether they are early childhood, childhood, adolescent or young adult. We must take them with us. If they are too young to vote, they must walk with us, stand with us as we vote. They must witness us doing the right thing. We must help to prepare all of our young people to be proactive, not only in the streets, but through the ballot box. We must prepare them for a time such as this, for the multiple ways in which we must continue to fight the good fight. What they mean for ill shall propel us to God’s will. And as we insist that our young people fight via the ballot box, we must also value their approaches to righteous indignation. Not either or…but together we stand. Together we win. Together…we shall overcome…TODAY!!
Love and realness,
#lindamichellebaron
www.mylindamichellebaron.com