The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.
Yorkshire is so much part of me.
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.
I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.
I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I go to events and when I walk in my own community. My sisters, Ingred, my sister Marsha, and my sister Nielock. All cofounders of the Indigenous Women's Network with me. All long time women activists in the native community.
I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England.
The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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