[blockquote cite=”James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain” type=”left”]She looked out into the quiet, sunny streets, and for the first time in her life, she hated it all – the white city, the white world. She could not, that day, think of one decent white person in the whole world. She sat there, and…
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Caris Adel
Day 8 – The Way the World Works
Day 7 – Links for Anti-Racism Work
A new thing I’ve been doing, when I become overwhelmed with all the bad news, is to find the people and groups that are doing good work. So as a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Ferguson, here are links and resources to people who are doing good anti-racism work, and also ways to keep up…
Day 5 – Self-Care Sunday
Day 4 – Songs for Saturday
Day 3 – The Freedom of My Mind
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31 Days of Walking Brave – Day 2 – Links to the Wilderness
As a child, rest was second-nature, maybe even first nature. There were twelve hours of stillness in any given Tuesday. I slept, sure, but even waking watched the frogs blinking milky filmed eye-lids from just above the surface of an Ozark mud puddle. – The Murder of Rest The trails are a reminder of…
Day 1 – Go Out Into the Wild
Run through your days so the pain doesn’t have a chance to settle. Speed your feet along the wi-fied paths; give into the fascination of distraction. Close the windows to the rain, the wind, the sounds of life. Put away the porch furniture and build the fences around your home, your heart. Close your…
What I’m Into – Sept 2014
Love Sounds Like Metal
It’s a sound. A metal sound. When you’re 10, love sounds like metal. You’re lying in bed, upstairs in the old farmhouse. The room is covered in wallpaper probably from the 60s, and you are buried under layers and layers of blankets. Grandma is always worried about the cold, so she piles you high with…