The Power Of Rest

[Boleslao Drinker]

Havingthe energy to radically reimagine the world we deserve requires a clear mind and a calm heart. This is especially important for grassroots Latino leaders working tirelessly to build power. Our nonprofit leaders are exhausted from the on slaughter of crises in our communities. We have collectively neglected our health and wellbeing as a price we pay for creating social change and building strong anchor institutions.

At Latino Community Foundation (LCF) we are reclaiming rest as both a right and a responsibility. The most effective institutions and movements are driven by energetic, inspired people! Rest is the most productive thing we can do to advance power building in our communities. We are committed to nurturing a culture that recognizes the fundamental importance of rest. This year, LCF is thrilled to launch a new program that provides leaders and organizations funding and resources to make rest a reality and a priority.

It hit me like a ton of bricks one Saturday night how much burnout was affecting my life. I had just canceled on a friend's wedding weekend to work instead. A voice in my head kept saying, "You can't afford to take time off. "You have work to do!"

Maybe you can relate to my story. Many high-achievers can. We're the ones who are always "on," juggling tasks, ticking off to-do lists, and pushing our limits to the edge. Deep down, we believe that resting is a luxury we can't afford if we want to stay ahead in the race.

Author Ximena Vengoechea is no stranger to this mentality. But in her new book, Rest Easy: Discover Calm and Abundance through the Radical Power of Rest, she offers a powerful reframe: rest isn't a sign of weakness, but rather a a strategic investment in your well-being. In this interview, Vengoechea shares more about how rest can become an antidote to burnout culture and an invitation to find joy, balance, and energy.

Vengoechea: Our rest profile is a blend of our individual personality, identity, societal circumstances, and childhood experiences. There are five profiles that came up in my research: Intuitive Resters, Functional Resters, Gold-Star Resters, Anti-Resters, and Deprived Resters.

Vengoechea: Cultivating regular rest is a great way to protect ourselves from future burnout. Any rest practices that you can make a ritual of are going to help your cause. My favorite rest rituals are:

The success of modern capitalism is rooted in socially-constructed notions of race used to justify the exploitation and commoditization of enslaved peoples through the exaggeration of racial differences. In his memoir, Frederick Douglass noted how the enslaved were kept in a state of constant fatigue and psychological stress; forced to work 15 to 16 hours a day and denied access to a safe place to rest. Neoliberalism compounds the continued effects of slavery, inducing a sleep gap wherein racialized minorities are forced to forgo sleep in order to work increasingly long hours for lower pay and sleep in unsafe and uncomfortable rest environments.

Rest is a form of reparations and a critical means to build space to dream of a liberatory future. While typically considered powerful political forces, the rest and reparations movements reframe rest, abundance, quiet and non-work as potent forms of activism and self-preservation.

Rest in power (a variation on rest in peace) is an expression used to mourn, remember or celebrate a deceased person, especially someone who is thought to have struggled against systemic prejudice such as homophobia, transphobia, racism or suffered because of it, particularly in black and LGBTQ communities in the United States.[1] It has been used to eulogize victims of hate crimes while protesting the social inequality and institutionalised discrimination that may have led to their deaths. It is a common phrase to use to honor someone's legacy, though as an activist.

Etymologist Barry Popik traced one of the earliest recorded uses of the phrase to a newsgroup post on February 18, 2000, which paid tribute to Oakland, California graffiti artist Mike 'Dream' Francisco, who had been shot and killed during an armed robbery. Dream's graffiti art was political in tone, and his pieces often critiqued the United States government's treatment of poor and marginalized people.[3] The post to .mw-parser-output .monospacedfont-family:monospace,monospacealt.graffiti, by a contributor identified only as "SPANK", ended with the words "REST IN POWER PLAYA".[4]

By the mid-2000s, the phrase began to appear in print, again linked to young people's premature, violent deaths. In March 2003, under the headline "Rest In Power, Rachel Corrie", In These Times eulogised the death of activist Rachel Corrie at the hands of the Israeli military in Gaza.[5] In a 2005 opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle, Meredith Maran reflected on 19-year-old Meleia Willis-Starbuck, a Dartmouth College scholarship student who was home in Berkeley for the summer when she was shot and killed by an unknown assailant outside her apartment. Writing of the makeshift public altar set up to mourn Willis-Starbuck, Maran wrote, "I've never seen 'Rest in Power' written as a substitute for 'Rest in Peace.'"[6]

A September 29, 2005, article in the Ottawa Citizen, a Canadian newspaper, described a public graffiti memorial for teenage Ottawa murder victim Jennifer Teague that portrayed "a smiling Ms. Teague beneath the words, 'Rest in power'" and framed by "two black angels."[7]

The parents of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old African-American who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in 2012, wrote a 2017 nonfiction book titled Rest in Power about their son's life and legacy. In 2018 the book was adapted into a six-part television documentary series titled Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story.

In the song 'Rest in Power', the official theme for the 2018 documentary series of the same name, Black Thought raps: "To them it's real, sins of the father remembered still / For every Trayvon Martin, there was an Emmett Till".[14]

"Rest in power" is sometimes used outside the context of activist social media to mark the deaths of respected public figures who leave strong legacies, even if they are not known for their political activism. Some internet users used the phrase to commemorate the assassination of Jo Cox, a British MP killed by a far-right gunman.[15] After the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, some commentators used the phrase.[16]

Further, if that's possible, could someone give me a quick and dirty of how to accomplish that and perhaps point to toward the materials I need to read to figure out how to do it? Part of my misunderstanding here is how the Blackbaud and Power BI REST APIs interact (if at all).

Basically, Calling REST API in Power BI can be a challenging process because you have to deal with many complex issues. If its simple JSON / XML then fine but in the real world, many other issues arise such as pagination, flatten the hierarchy, error handling, security (OAuth, Basic, Certificate).

I am new to BI. I am using REST API as data source, I am trying to get list of sensors readings to BI but the API only allow to call 1 week readings period if i try to call the readings for 1 month period the API will not return any result,

@Eric_Zhang and @Anonymous Here's some sample code from the Advanced Query editor in Power BI desktop that would work for making an API call to Blackbaud's ON products, get and store the token from Blackbaud API as variable (NOTE: these are fakes URLs, usernames, passwords, and SLI id for list, but I promise it works in Power BI desktop just be sure your user has access to the Web Services API Manager role and that the list you're pulling from also gives access to the Web Services API Manager role and/or your username).

I had rest API Call working in Power BI Desktop but its give me error when I push it on power BI Service that it can't be refreshed. Anybody refreshed succesfully REST API DataSource in Power BI Service?

I've also managed to get Power BI to communicate with the Blackbaud Sky API for Raiser's edge NXT. It can be refreshed via Power BI Desktop, but not via the service. The error message is: "Data source error: Unable to refresh the model (id=2519924) because it references an unsupported data source."

The other problem I have is that of token refresh. Having to manually generate an OAuth token every hour or so, and plugging that into a parameter in Power BI Desktop to be able to refresh data is a real pain.

@Quicky yes I still haven't found a way around the error in Power BI service. But you can write a variable that will ask, get, store, and enter your token for you. Check this out: -microsoft-powerbi-with-the-blackbaud-api/

Cheers GGetty. The Blackbaud Sky API appears to have a different authentication, and instead of returning a Json, the access token is returned in the URL itself when using Implicit Flow: -flow/ although it does return a Json containing the token when using Authorisation Code Flow -code-flow/ but only after you've processed the access code in the initial call to the authorisation service, which returns an access code in the return URL again. Both methods require the user to authorise the access via clicking an Authorise button.

My Power Query knowledge isn't great; do you kow of a way to automate that? Send a request to the Blackbaud authorisation page, wait for the user to authorise, and grab and process the returned URL? It's annoying that the authentication methods differ between the APIs!

At the moment I'm using a PowerShell script to perform the actions and return the token, which I'm then manually copying and pasting into the authorisation parameter in Power BI. The script also optionally queries the api and exports the returned data into a JSON file which I'm half tempted to use as the Power BI data source rather than querying the API directly since there's so many hoops to jump through.

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