A month has passed and this is not the first time I attempt to articulate and summarize what happened amongst a small group of 12 diverse participants who took a risk, flipped a switch, traveled to Harlem, 125th Street to talk about working together across race and class for change. Several things went wrong and […]
The motivation is not the sameIt is not my voice that I seekBut the voice of another, my adversaryNot my friend, HopeBut the imprisoned me. With all my might I reach and stretchInto strength I pull with clenched teethStand as I may to fight your good fight-I cannot and I’m failed again.Just another borrowed claim-Underground […]
Over a long and lazy holiday weekend my mother told me that as a child I spent hours on end locked in my room reading, reading, reading and writing, too. She always felt, she added matter-of-factly, that I’d grow up to be a writer. In the midst of preparing a day after Christmas meal where […]
On the Home FrontAt a small and quiet Thanksgiving reunion, family members discuss the rules of Secret Santa and we wait while we vote on how much we should spend. There is laughter. Jolly. Some argue that the purpose after all is not the gift, but the gesture and “don’t we all have very little […]
When I was younger, I was told that a sign of diplomacy and intelligence was the ability to act rationally and to control your emotions — especially in a debate. So, I practiced this and when I grew up and had just about enough, I decided that instead, I would become an artist. Then I […]
I live in the country where it seems that nothing happens. I confess that I have fallen prey to the art of generalizing. You know – the people here, the places here, they’re so “country.” I long for the crisp sidewalks of the urban terrain. I long for the crisp ideas that pop off dirty […]
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