the children run up the stairs and i realize how old i have become one choice at a time in the places i come together and where i am forever […]
Tag: grief
9 lessons from my wayward child
9 months ago today, I became pregnant. Pregnant in spite of plan b, nonchalance, magic and my non-pregnancy-inclusive plans. I had no idea. I didn’t feel anything particular, didn’t notice […]
Compassion/We are all being
Yesterday there were coordinated terrorist attacks all over Paris. I was shaken by it – Paris is one of the places that has shaped me, I’ve been many times and […]
Ben, Don and Raven-Symone at Dinner
Setting: Halloween night, warm and cozy Italian restaurant, candle lit on table. Ben and Don are seated, with glasses of wine. They are both eating pasta, we join mid conversation. […]
a conversation with the dinosaur at chicago o’hare airport
me: wow. dinosaur in chicago airport: hey. me: i feel a little loopy. have a three hour layover here because i missed my flight yesterday…only got a few hours of […]
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being there
1. I want to be present. Here, not always over there, or in my phone somewhere, or on my way somewhere else. This is the quality about Grace that I […]
Parable of the Sower Concert Review/Gush
Terry Marshall of Intelligent Mischief recently articulated this moment we’re in as a Black Renaissance. I concur – we are transforming pain into gold at an impossible speed. I keep […]
everywhere so full (for Jake Brewer, rip)
everywhere was so full of people remembering what they’d been told to forget dying with regrets too soon or too late but never on time you were a man unafraid […]
Self Love as a Liberatory Practice for the Future
On Wednesday night I got to have a public conversation with new and old friends about self love. We spoke at Solespace, my favorite site store /community space in Oakland. […]
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37 gratitudes
1. My life. 2. My mother, carrying me, loving every iteration of me. 3. My father, at my back, thinking always of my safety. 4. My sisters. Warrior rock comrades […]