Grief Paints, Too
My mom’s birthday. My dad’s death and me somewhere in between remembering.
My mom’s birthday. My dad’s death and me somewhere in between remembering.
That time in the year 2000 when my sweet Beatle boy type friend went with me to a D’Angelo concert.
Punch Me Up to The Gods. A few words on being free.
This is a celebration of a book that brought me smiles and brought me home. This Is Where We Find Ourselves. Enjoy!
Dear Tereneh,
Some flowers for you, sis.
My top 5 favorite reads of 2021 celebration starts with Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.
Through her writing she shares her experiences of growing up in a wild and unsettling environment at home and shares her journey to engage thought and spark a collective intention to do better than what has been. Her first book, a memoir, titled Wild Flowers, Orchards, and Men who pluck them will be published in the Winter of 2021 following a release of fiction, non-fiction and self help literature.
So many of us are wondering how we will teach and learn through a pandemic that has sharpened the edges of capital, consumption, power, and privilege. I have gathered my thoughts into one simple mantra for these next weeks as we enter the fall season of education: teaching and learning without killing.
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