Complicity
Those people. Them. They. Mob mentality is viscerally frightening. Even if played out on the flat surface of the television, the sight of people running amok, smashing windows, storefronts, setting...
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Last month, in Complicity, I wrote how infuriated I became when confronted with a white woman who shared with me her unsolicited world view: “They can’t follow instructions….Black people.” The...
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Timbuktu. When I was four, I loved the way the name tripped off my tongue. This word bouquet coincided with my first ice cream sandwich which was gloriously mysterious, even without the added...
View ArticleA Vocabulary of Motives
I adjusted my Army surplus belt and made sure I had extra pencils in the canvas pocket. The larger pocket was supposed to hold a metal canteen, but my diary fit perfectly. On the...
View ArticleEmbracing the Dark?
Choosing to land Elizabeth Dias’s article about Barbara Brown Taylor and her book Learning to Walk in the Dark on the cover of TIME tells me there is nothing really wrong with the world. No hunger,...
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