Walk With Us: Triplet boys, their teen parents & 2 white women who tagged along - Elizabeth Gordon

Walk With Us

Elizabeth Gordon recounts the spiritual & cultural odyssey in her newly released book, Walk With Us. When she and her female partner take into their home a 14-year old expecting triplets, it is a learning experience on multiple levels, mixing as it did Black Muslims and white Quakers, straight and gay, not to mention the generational differences. Elizabeth recounts the deeply emotional and powerfully spiritual twists and turns of helping raise 3 beautiful baby boys in trying circumstances.

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Ella's Song - Sweet Honey in the Rock

 

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Walk With Us - Elizabeth Gordon
What's the book about - what's the adventure
What's the book about - what's the adventure?
Elizabeth talks about WHY she made this move - and what was dramatic about the connection of a white, Quaker, lesbian, nearly 40 year old woman to a black, Black Muslim, heterosexual, 15 year old girl.
Cultural Clash - Holding Babies
Elizabeth had never examined her presumption that a crying baby NEEDS to be held, a very different belief than the one she faced with the triplets.
Parental Discipline - A Father's Boundaries
Parental Discipline - A Father's Boundaries
Elizabeth learned that even babies can exercise self-control, when trained with a firm and consistent discipline.
Racism
Islam
Quakerism
Homosexuality
Interracial
Triplets
Muslim
Adoption

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Elizabeth Gordon

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