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So I read ‘Enough of this F*%ery Already White UUs’ and followed the links to the post that provoked it and this response video (on FB), which I actually listened to, and I have a particular thought to express.
And one thing struck me, and it struck me really hard: this sentiment of “my religion […]
Let’s just stick to this image:
A tall woman comes up to the front of the chapel, pink hat over steel hair and freckled brown skin. When she begins to sing her voice is uneven, imperfect, strained:
“Put on your face….”
She makes it through the verse, takes a breath.
The congregation starts in, unevenly, […]
Imagine, if you would, the landscape of Egypt-of-old.
Think of the sharp divides that the dry air leave between day and night. Think of the sudden line between the desert and the fertile land, and the way the flood presses back the sand, and the sand presses back the flood. Think of the river flowing […]
(Changed my crossposter settings to do the whole post over to tumblr, so we’ll see how that goes, huh? I was not happy with how the thing handled the Antinoan Poetry entry.)
Today, I find myself thinking of many things. This is the third post I’ve started. We’ll see if I finish it.
I am, […]
June 28, 2015: I was reading blogs, specifically the Slacktivist, and I read this, and I was overcome. It was a symbolic gesture, quickly overturned, but it was a moment that convinced me that I was living in a world with giants. Giants I would never have the luck, the blessing to encounter, but it […]
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