i have been thinking a lot about conflict resolution in small and intimate spaces like families, or networks, or organizations. i don’t quite know how to do it in families […]
Year: 2011
Spring Cleaning 101
I have blogged about this before, but it’s too liberating not to share again. While other folks start spring cleaning with, like, actual cleaning, I get inspired by going through […]
Attached to Vengeance
i have been sitting with my thoughts rolling around in my head about osama bin laden’s death. the best i could come up with to say is to never become […]
On Catherine Ferguson Academy and the People’s Movement Assembly
(this post is about the school closings in Detroit, particularly the effort to close Catherine Ferguson Academy, which came to national media attention after a dramatic action. my analysis includes […]
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we only surrender (new song for detroit)
We won’t settle We only surrender to the Future that waits For us to awaken (X2) We not afraid Of you and your scheming We over here Believing That love […]
“it’s not a phase, i want you to stay with me” *
here’s a vulnerable post, because i need to be that right now. i have gone through so many phases in my life, most of them related to food. finally, finally, […]
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The Tao of Facilitative Leadership
I can’t stop reading this piece of the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu. I’m working with the translation by Stephen Mitchell, but also found one online that is also […]
Organizing Trick: Stop, Drop and Roll
(just unearthed this from a journal amidst songs and poems i am transferring to my hard drive. thought y’all would get a kick out of it…) if something is off […]
absentee blogger, casual poet
i know i haven’t written much of late. i go through periods where i am living too fast or too deeply for this space, no offense…lately it’s been a combination […]
community supported activism: the new CSA
this brilliant invitation just in from my sister Autumn Brown, so inspiring that i just have to repost it here and encourage you all to support her (she’s the one […]