Still Standing: NYC Skyline and Remembering 9/11.
Still standing like Rocky after all his fights -- battered, bruised, but all heart. Because underneath the steel and concrete, it’s a softy.
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Escape by Sea: Shape of Salvation in Watercolor Tones.
I imagined people escaping by sea, from disease and geological cataclysm, and thought of what it must be like to have made it onto a boat.
Lines in the Sand: A Goddess Divided.
So close to the altar of Aphrodite Urania, a goddess cleansed of her Eastern sensuality by the Greek patriarchal lens, afraid of her energy.
Patterns That Weave Us Together During Holy Wars.
If we were to focus on the minutia to understand, which I often do, we might see more human-sized patterns in all the wreckage, the carnage.
Roiling Soil & Re-Turning: Honoring Lives Given & Taken.
Release more deeply into what’s truly 'The Matter' in these times. Matter is from Latin 'materia' (substance), and Mater, Mother. Soil.
Framed in Light: The Radical Identitarian Right.
The headlights illuminated a spiral of fiery brown, twisting dangerously around the interrogating beam, lacing it in a curving question. I wasn’t used to driving, and catching my own hair lit by the headlights of the car behind me filled me with sudden dread. The road was a coiling, dark ...
Gentle Loners: Interiority of Violent White Christian Men.
We can assume an interiority in those who have been shot, who have swung from a rope because a white Christian man was “at the end of his."
World Around Me: The Insidious Innocence Abroad.
I was not a WASP darting through a world so acquiescent to my identity that it conspired with my ancestors to conceal my own sting from me.
Food Prepared With Love: Coming to the Table.
There was a time when food was acknowledged as a sacred necessity. Animals that provided protein were honored and thanked.
My Heart Goes Out to Fellow Children of Refugees.
I come from Huguenot (French Protestant) refugee descendants... as modern refugees are doing, my ancestors helped develop Canada.