{"id":18496,"date":"2013-07-03T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18496"},"modified":"2013-07-03T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:31:24","slug":"words-to-avoid-no-not-and-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18496","title":{"rendered":"Words to avoid – no, not, and don’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I was doing the phones – boom boom boom – and then ran out to do a podcast<\/a> about Transracial Parenting and segued to the American Sector for a drink with a friend, and then Ogden Museum<\/a> to hear Andrew Duhon<\/a>, a singer\/songwriter who not just because of the fact that he called me radiant, is now on my playlist. <\/p>\n

And I came home and got in bed and my head was reeling and here was my list:<\/p>\n

1) I’m writing a book for white parents of white children – The Elephant in the Playground – and I wanted a publisher and a friend emailed that she has closed her graphic design business and become a book publisher. <\/p>\n

2) I have had all the money I need and wanted more of it and an ex colleague called and said she has work for me.<\/p>\n

3) I wanted to start workshops to reach out to social workers and prospective adoptive parents of children of color and was referred to a woman who wants to help me do just that.<\/p>\n

4) I was asked by a person I met in California if I could write a children’s book and just came across a link for a contest by a publisher for children’s books seeking books about kids of color. <\/p>\n

I woke this morning and had a new friend call me from Richmond, California and tell me about her colorful family and the best way to put your intentions out into the world – stay away from no, not and don’t. Even in your gratitude – saying “I don’t have money” is best offered as a positive question, “Why do I have all the money I need?”<\/p>\n

Intention is a powerful tool. Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I was doing the phones – boom boom boom – and then ran out to do a podcast about Transracial Parenting and segued to the American Sector for a drink with a friend, and then Ogden Museum to hear Andrew Duhon, a singer\/songwriter who not just because of the fact that he called me radiant, is now on my playlist. And I came home and got in bed and my head was reeling and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4Ok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18518,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496\/revisions\/18518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}