*African proverb The above picture showed up on my social media feed a couple days ago. If you don't recognize her name, Greta Thunberg is the Swedish student who has been credited with raising global awareness of the risks posed by greenhouse … [Read more]
Messy
The other evening I watched as a father played with his young daughter. He was kicking and throwing a beach ball to her. She would run and try to catch it. On one attempt she fell down and got grass stain on her pants. Getting up she looked at … [Read more]
Thank You = Resistance
Because, she said his request to purchase Greenland was “absurd,” he called her “nasty.” Apart from the sexism of a powerful man calling a woman, in this case the leader of an allied nation, nasty, this seems like a case of the pot calling the kettle … [Read more]
A Number of Questions…
Last week ICE agents raided a chicken processing plant in Morton, Mississippi arresting 680 people for being in the country illegally. What took place is troubling in many regards and left me thinking about several questions. Were laws … [Read more]
An Experiment
Our eyes met and we nodded at each other. "How are you?" They said as we passed each other on the sidewalk. "Fine. How are you?" I was walking the dog and they were walking out of a store. Polite pleasantries exchanged, we both went on our … [Read more]
Content of Their Character
Manifestos. Diatribes. Name calling. Finger pointing. He said. She said. Deafening gunfire. Even more deafening silence. Body slams. Twisted truth. Outright lies. With all this and more, I have found myself thinking about Dr. King’s I Have … [Read more]
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