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sitting with friends of friends and friends
The world becomes small like a teak table in the backyard garden or the kitchen table with whiskey and ice remains taunting from the bottom of short, stocky glasses. The world too becomes expansive...
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to be there with children
I cannot imagine what it must be like to be there with children. Or even a single child. When I fly I’m aware of everything I’m touching everything my bag is touching I’m aware of the food that costs...
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I don’t know how to tell you
I don’t know how to tell you why I’m so concerned about what is happening. We are are both believers, but I’m not sure if we thought we are believing in the same thing. We are both committed, but I’m...
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we hail what heals
Photo: Donald G Jordan, Guggenheim, June 2017 Quote: Gwendolyn Brooks, from “In Montgomery”
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until we know ourselves
A young boy in KKK robes sees his reflection in a riot shield held by an African-American state trooper. Taken in Gainesville, Ga., in 1992, this photo by Todd Robertson via Poynter.org “…the human...
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this specific corner; that specific room
It ordinarily ends in this specific corner of that specific room. The very first evening ended in that space; this one did too. Time lies but this corner does not. Suddenly new yet very familiar....
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not most hopeful
by Keenan Kosolowski It’s been difficult to write. I’ve not been hopeful. And having experienced anything other than hopefulness, like wrestling with emotions and under the realities of frustration,...
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I cracked two paintbrushes tonight.
I used to iron clothes. In a profession that requires patience, expectancy, and hopefulness, many things are waited on for long amounts of time. We wait for things beyond our abilities to wait for...
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In Memory of TuTu, the Firecracker
September 3, 2020 TuTu’s Funeral Eulogy While it was expected, the news of TuTu’s death was loud and sudden. The hours after however felt oddly silent. Like the audible nothingness following a tornado...
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