One Billion Rising, Why I RISE up and heal the world!

Over two centuries ago, Bishop George Berkeley posed the philosophical question, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

I say, YES!

It's called the ripple effect.

Like the first time that I spoke out publicly about being raped.

I was acting as the proverbial pebble in the pond, sending out ever expanding ripples across the water.
And I was also those ripples; breaking my silence on being raped, allowed me to also speak out about the ye...