We open our first New Year episode to share One word we'd like to focus on intentionally this year. Naoness also honors MLK day 2023 with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s open letter, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," written in August 1963, after he was imprisoned as a participant in a nonviolent demonstration.  69 years later, what have we learned from America's landscape, and as women of color, what is our part in living through the continued inequities in our society?  We have the moral responsibility to take a "strong, persistent, and determined action" when injustices occur because "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." We always pause to talk about food and connections.  Naoko celebrates her daughter's birthday and learn which family has a unique word for leftovers.