Here and there, I’ve noted commentary criticizing the presence of children at politically-oriented protests, rallies, marches, demonstrations, and so forth. The complaint seems to be that the children are being used as “props” and ought not be anywhere in the vicinity of…. I’m not sure? Discussions of consequence? Movements toward justice? …
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Speech can help to simplify that which overwhelms.
It is heartening how frequently the Green New Deal resolution is featuring into mass news media conversations. Despite a tendency for news outlets to court a questionable sense of balance and objectivity and therefore inevitably focus on the extent to which the prospect is a political winner or not, the fact that the resolution is…
Removing the transactional nature from a relationship allows for a free exchange.
It has been interesting to learn how very positively people remember their elementary school library experience. Without exception, each person to whom I’ve mentioned my new employment proves to be equal parts enthusiasm and nostalgia, primarily recalling school libraries as bastions of encouragement in a place that felt safe. These reactions certainly reflect the reasons…
therapy
After a difficult few hours of rouge, ranging, generalized imprisonment in a grief-struck realm, the floating dread verging on panic that can so readily descend upon the psyche in 2017 found some relief by grace of small talk with elders. A frequent occurrence. So I wrote a poem: Store Late in the morning yesterday,…
Insight/Outfit of the Day 