"Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America."
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Freedom is Connection
"The way I’ve come to understand it, freedom is both an individual and
collective endeavor—a multilayered process, not a static state of being.
Being free is, in part, achieved through being connected." Mia Birdsong puts it
Monday, July 6, 2020
New Old Summer
…and
she tried to discover wherein this summer had been different from any
and every other summer of her life. She could only realize that she
herself—her present self—was in some way different from the other self.
— Kate Chopin
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Respect is and is not about authority
"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a
person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like
an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."
Celeste Porter?
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."
Celeste Porter?
Friday, May 8, 2020
Beauty was not simply something to behold
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.” —Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Thursday, May 7, 2020
And I Am Quite Free
"I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free." Georgia O'Keefe
Thursday, April 23, 2020
New Yorks
"E.B.
White said there were three New Yorks: the city of those who were born
here, the city of those who commute in daily, and the city of those who
come here 'in quest of something.' To this list, we may now add a
fourth: The New York of those who stayed."
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