spent the day today driving down the coast of california, hiking, dancing, laughing. i have never regretted saying yes to a road trip in my life, it is sweet to […]
Month: July 2013
learning to respond to the world as a non-organizer
as usual, so much is happening. in the past couple of weeks the voting rights act was overturned, trayvon martin’s known murderer was released, detroit declared bankruptcy…these are three of […]
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emerging: a soundtrack
tonight was the first night of professional development training for my writing fellowship. i feel like i (imaginally) remember i did when it occurred to me that i was crawling […]
SHOPPING LIST AND SCHEDULE FOR JUICE CLEANSE (reposting)
(posted this on my tumblr when my blog was down, and then realized it’s not searchable, so reposting here for myself!) i’m doing a combination of master cleanse and raw […]
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Keep going Trayvon
Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral […]
Relinquish the safe territory of us and them
So much happens in this world because we can shirk responsibility – ‘them’ as a concept is such a relief, such a gift. ‘They’ are destroying the world, hoarding resources, […]
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lessons from a transformative breakup: how to find new ways be in each other’s lives and not split the communities we love or the movements we support*
Try every single thing you can to make it work, and articulate the effort you are making to each other. Even things you aren’t sure will work – try EVERYthing. […]
bombs bursting in air
bang. for well over a week now it has been fireworks season in detroit. we schedule our official freedom fireworks to align with windsor’s celebration of canada day, for budgetary […]
principles to live by
the allied media conference was last week. it is a restorative, reenergizing space for me each year. not just because i get to do the most fun set of sessions […]