House by the Sea – Moddi (this is my new absolutely favorite song and band, and the video for this is gorgeous) They say home is the place where your heart is Then I am home now, though I am far away For so long I’ve let the forest guard it And now it’s begging…
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Day 10 – It Is Worth It
Day 9 – Introducing Structural Racism to Kids
[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…
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 6 – #Ferguson
This is an excerpt from Issue 1 of Walking Brave. #Ferguson has made it hard, if not impossible, for people to say ‘I didn’t know’. Maybe before, white people hadn’t really paid attention to ‘systemic racism’. Maybe you know people who actually describe it as – raise those fingers – “systemic racism” – because they…
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…