Jan Stewart shares silence with the STRS Board 5/19/22

From Jan Stewart

May 19, 2022 

"You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging, leaping from their mouths. Silence? No!"

~  Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea

Please join me in silence. *2 minutes.

(Silence)

Over the past few years, speakers have shared their concerns with you through extensive research, historical reflections, and personal stories of hardship. All have shared with the utmost passion, pleading to be heard. But all have fallen on deaf ears. Today, I chose to communicate differently. You weren't expecting MY silence. I am hoping that whatever the experience created in You, will be significant; that you heard what you never would have heard from MY words.