Leonard Cohen

Former Slave became an abolitionist.

She was a sojourner on a mission.

Sojourner Truth - United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883).

Sojourner Truth was born in 1797 on the Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh estate in Swartekill, in Ulster County, a Dutch settlement in upstate New York. Her given name was Isabella Baumfree (also spelled Bomefree). She was one of 13 children born to Elizabeth and James Baumfree, also slaves on the Hardenbergh plantation. She spoke only Dutch until she was sold from her family around the age of nine. Because of the cruel treatment she suffered at the hands of a later master, she learned to speak English quickly, but had a Dutch accent for the rest of her life.

Time is your Treasure.

Time is a finite resource and needs to be treated as a very precious commodity in how we live our lives.

Sojourn is defined as a temporary stay which is such a great metaphor for human life....

sojourner- someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there.


Sojourner comes from the Old French, séjourner, meaning "to stay for a time."