4 Muluc
Red Self-Existing
Moon
Feathered Wings
Upon a Red Moon spread
Intuition surges in
Universal Waters
Forming the Portal
In a great Galactic Storm
Planetary Harmonics
Flow in a beating Heart
By Light informed
By Life Force formed.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Thelma C. Davidson Adair
Thelma C. Davidson Adair (born August 29, 1920) is a Presbyterian educator, church leader, advocate for human rights, peace and justice issues, writer, guest speaker, educator, and activist. She has been a resident of Harlem since 1942. She has been active with Church Women United, a Christian women's advocacy movement. She is an ordained Elder for the Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church of New York City in Harlem. Adair was the moderator for the 1976 Assembly Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Her husband was the late Reverend Arthur Eugene Adair, s a minister of the church from 1943 to 1979, who died in 1979.
Adair is an advocate for early childhood education and helped to establish Head Start programs in Harlem. She is Professor Emeritus of the City University of Queens College, City University of New York.
Adair is a graduate from Barber–Scotia College, Concord, North Carolina, and Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina. She earned a master's degree and Doctorate of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Adair was born in Iron Station, North Carolina, and lived there while in elementary school. Adair grew up during a period of North America history in the Southern United States known as the Jim Crow-era. She was born in 1922, in Iron Station, North Carolina, one of five children. She was born Thelma Cornelia Davidson. Her family then moved to Kings Mountain, North Carolina. She married Reverend Dr. Arthur Eugene Adair. They moved to New York City in 1942. He became a Senior Pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church (Mount Morris, New York), and is a Harlem and Presbyterian educator.
World War II
Like many African Americas and Americans, Adair participated in the World War II efforts at home and abroad. She worked in a war plant inspecting radar tubes. She was also a young mother at the time. She described her experience:
"This was a period of perhaps the greatest number of lynchings. Everything was separate. Total restrictions. And at every moment you could be humiliated just because of color. Despite the denial, despite the tragedy, despite the suffering, black folks, colored folks, Negro, Afro-Americans, claim America. This was your country, and so the loyalty, and this is the mystery of it all, was so strong that you never, even as we worked in war plants, even as we brought our crippled back, even as we buried our dead and got flags – we were not fighting for someone else. We too were America, and we only wanted the chance and the opportunity that we could have to sit at the table."
Career
Adair worked for West Harlem Head Start Programs. In 1944 she organized the Arthur Eugene and Thelma Adair Community Life Center Head Start. The center services over 250 children throughout various locations in Harlem. Adair has written and published numerous articles on early childhood education. Her publications are authoritative guides for early childhood educators throughout the United States.
In 1976, Adair was elected Moderator of the General Assembly for the Presbyterian Church. She is one of the original founders of Presbyterian Senior Services, and is a participant with the Fellowship of the 'Least Coin', a worldwide prayer movement. She was president of Church Women United from 1980 to 1984.
She was honored in 2011 by Congressman Charles Rangel. She attended the Selma, Alabama 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Affiliations
Chair, Presbyterian Senior Services
Advisor, Church Women United, National Board
Board of Visitor, Davidson College
Advisory Council, National Council of Churches
Member, Harlem Hospital Community Advisory Board
Awards
The Thelma C. Adair Award on Presbyterian Senior Services
Barber-Scotia Alumni Award for Meritorious Service in the Field of Education
Columbia University, Teacher's College Distinguished Alumni Award
United Negro College Fund Distinguished Award for Outstanding Service and Commitment of Higher Education
1986 Recipient of Women of Faith Award from the Presbyterian Church
1991 Recipient of National Association of Presbyterian Clergywomen Women of Faith Awards
2008 Recipient of the Medal of Distinction Barnard College
2011 Recipient of the Maggie Kuhn Presbyterian Church Award*
MULUC
Kin 69: Red Self-Existing Moon
I define in order to purify
Measuring flow
I seal the process of universal water
With the self-existing tone of form
I am guided by the power of life force
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me.
The memory of a "lost chord" or "lost planet" is also deeply embedded in the unconscious of the human psyche.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Manipura Chakra (Limi Plasma)
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