it is my 15,811th night. what is it for you? this cycle is within so many others. it matters if we want it to. the miracles are constant. of the […]
Year: 2021
in case it helps / bell hooks asé
hi beloved blog readers i haven’t been writing here as often. i am writing so much, in so many places, but i haven’t forgotten you – i come here when […]
exciting lessons from yes on 2
I woke up this morning thinking about the Yeson2 campaign in Minneapolis. The campaign, instigated and organized by people I adore, was a call to replace their municipal police department […]
not busy, focused; not busy, full
this is a poem or a reset you keep telling me you know I am so busy but… and then you ask me for something and I want you to […]
what if this body
ah but what if this is the ideal body after all. this body which once danced all night and still waited to see the sun rise. ah but what if […]
I Remember Everything
It’s been twenty years since I stepped out of the subway on 6th Avenue and heard an unusually close groaning in the sky and then a boom of glass thunder. […]
what they do to the earth / they do to our bodies
what they do to the earth they do to our bodies they press their filth into the crevice and when, somehow, still, we make it holy they take the miracle […]
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The Darwin Variant, and/or Love of the Fittest
The chaos grows and grows, everything around us faltering, falling. Who do we need to be and who are we becoming? Once I was in a room with Margaret Wheatley, […]
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St. Louis Racial Equity Summit 2021 Keynote
St Louis Racial Equity Summit Keynote (notes): We are imagining a world we have never seen before. Writing it into existence with words and with actions. We who live in […]
this is the only moment (species love poetry)
i can’t stop being in the present noticing how the past tells me what i should care about and the future tells me what i should fear and the past […]
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