3 Lamat
Yellow Electric Star
Sapphire – Amethyst – Emerald
Carnelian – Chalcedony – Chrysoprase
Helix in Flux -
Crystal Harmonics
Listen for the small Voice still –
Sound beneath all Sound
Radiant Light
Within a starry Round
Attune your Soul
To sacred Geometry
Climb Jacob’s Ladder –
Ascend – descend
Into the Earth-Heart Chakra*
The Almond in her Shell
The New Jerusalem –
The sub-atomic Cell
Foundation of our Being
Source of Light and Sound
Aphrodite’s** Crown of Jewels
Gleaming on Love’s Ground.
*Chakra (Sanskrit): Vortex of life-force located in the physical
and metaphysical bodies.
**Aphrodite: The Greek Goddess of
love, beauty, sensuality and fertility.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Ada Sophia McKinley
Ada Sophia Dennison McKinley (June 26, 1868 – August 25, 1952) was an African American educator and settlement house worker in Chicago, Illinois. She was the founder of the South Side Settlement House, later renamed in her honor as Ada S. McKinley Community Services, which continues today as a major Chicago social service organization.
Early life and education
Ada Sophia Dennison was born and raised in Texas during Reconstruction: born in Galveston in 1868, she subsequently moved with her family to Corpus Christi. She attended Prairie View College and Tillotson Missionary College, and subsequently became a teacher in Texas schools. In 1887, she married the dentist William McKinley, and they subsequently moved north to Chicago.
In Chicago, McKinley became prominent in political and social circles as part of the women's club movement, and was a leading member of the Phyllis Wheatley Club.
In 1916, she served as secretary of the Colored Women's Hughes Republican headquarters in Chicago, which backed the unsuccessful presidential campaign of Charles Evans Hughes. She worked with other leading African-American women of Chicago on the campaign, including Ella Berry and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
In the ensuing years of World War I, McKinley served as head recreational host at the "War Camp Club," organized by the Chicago Urban League, which provided social services to returning soldiers and sailors. The War Camp Club is recognized today as a community-based antecedent to recreational therapy for troops returning from combat.
South Side Settlement
McKinley established the "Soldiers and Sailors Club" in 1919 to attend to the needs of returning African-American servicemen from World War I. After the Chicago race riot of 1919, she marched together with white settlement house workers including Jane Addams and Harriet Vittum to show that interracial solidarity was possible.
In 1926, McKinley renamed her organization the South Side Settlement House, becoming its president and chief resident. In the 1940s, the growing organization moved to the community center of the Ida B. Wells Homes. The South Side Settlement under McKinley's leadership was distinguished from other settlement houses by its work with Wells Homes residents.
Death and legacy
In 1949, the South Side Settlement was renamed the Ada S. McKinley Community House. McKinley laid the cornerstone at the organization's new headquarters on 34th Street in Bronzeville in 1952. She died just hours later, of a cerebral hemorrhage.
In the 1990's, it was discovered that McKinley's gravestone in Glenwood, Illinois was in severe disrepair. Ada S. McKinley Community Services arranged to have her re-interred at the Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago, along with her husband and son. Her monument stands next to a monument to Chicago mayor Harold Washington. The dedication of McKinley's monument was marked by an overflight by the Tuskeegee Airmen.
As of 2012, Ada S. McKinley Community Services operated more than 40 locations around Chicago and the surrounding area, with annual revenue of more than $38 million per year.
McKinley is also the namesake of the Ada S. McKinley Senior Apartments operated by the Chicago Housing Authority in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood.
Works cited
Anne Meis Knupfer (2006). The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. ISBN 0252072936.*
LAMAT
Kin 68: Yellow Electric Star
I activate in order to beautify
Bonding art
I seal the store of elegance
With the electric tone of service
I am guided by the power of free will.
Cosmic sky teachings accommodate every single stage and phase of spiritual growth as well as the evolutionary stages of life and consciousness simultaneously on all world systems.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Visshudha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)
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