Portia On Purpose

03/06/2026

People need People.

Every single human being has NEEDED another human being at some point in their lives.

People need People.

03/04/2026

Remember the Dr. Seuss book "Horton Here's a Who"? I absolutely loved that book as a kid and I still read it a couple times a year and watch the animated version as often.

It tells the story of an elephant named Horton who hears someone calling for help. But, the voice is so small, tiny and faint to others that they label Horton as crazy, kidnap him, steal the flower he is guarding (because that is where the voice came from) and dump it in a far, far away land. Horton does not flinch or waiver. He retrieves the lost flower, saving the inhabitants.

He is a diplomat of the highest order. He tells the other animals that just because they cannot hear it or see it doesn't mean the voice is not real. He then tells the voice (now voices) that they must make enough noise to be decisively heard..... AND IT WORKS.

The voices rally every single person in Whoville to make enough noise to be heard, thus saving their own lives. The other animals are humbled by the sound, the recognition and awareness that creatures exist and persist with or without their validation or approval!!!!!

Get where I'm going with this ..... SOCIAL WORK MATTERS because people matter, animals matter, all life matters, the planet matters...

03/03/2026

Social Work is very much political. Those in the profession who do not believe that it is political have shown up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Social Justice benefits everyone and everything, except the ego of the oppressor and those who seek to control instead of collaborate.

Collaboration requires action and affect. Those with a voice to speak, an ear to hear and hands to work must find ways to clear the path to healing, restoration and integration.

I move in abject clarity to this mission. I speak when others can't and when they don't. I speak when it matters. I say what needs to be said, often to the dismay of those who want and need "things to stay the same".

People - not the people you pick- have the right to move through this world without harm (when they are not harming). When they are being harmful to themselves or others, I am the one who will check it.

This is not ego driven. It is justice driven.

03/02/2026

03/01/2026

Grateful to embody my mission through this profound place as a professional helper... PLH MSW est. 2005

01/02/2026

12/28/2025

TOMORROW is the way and forward is the way!!!

12/23/2025

It is almost time!
Sunday we are in the self-learning lab.
Not too late to join.
You may accidentally "on purpose" learn something new about you...
One of the things that 2026 holds for me...is deeper discernment and deeper vulnerability.
This means that I can not and will not show up in places or with people who have not developed capacity for hearing the truth/
This whole 2025 timeline seems like fake news...
Come create a reality of focus, abundance and of being beautifully human...

12/23/2025

It is almost time!
Sunday we are in the self-learning lab.
Not too late to join.
You may accidentally "on purpose" learn something new about you...
One of the things that 2026 holds for me...is deeper discernment and deeper vulnerability.
This means that I can not and will not show up in places or with people who have not developed capacity for hearing the truth/
This whole 2025 timeline seems like fake news...
Come create a reality of focus, abundance and of being beautifully human...

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