we have all lifived. the arts steel and inspire. -- the arts heal and inspire. i want it noted that all of us have to do this if we want to inspire our youth to keep on moving on. keep on moving on. thank you to all of you, the sponsors, the other binarhonore and most especially i feel really blessed i am the first to be honored for this community activist board. norma was remarkable. i just want to say in the few minutes that i have what i think her message might be today. norma suffered from abuse from almost day one of her birth. until she was about 40 years old. she experienced child sexual abuse, bullying of all sorts, isolation, prison, sexual exploitation that we call prostitution, and in our religious and secular beliefs we believe that people who have these experiences are undeserving people and are put in that category. our social services, our cultural values and honor those women who are deserving, and we do not want to invest our taxes or anything else on the undeserving. that idea is at least 2000 years old. we have a legacy to deal with. it should