What do you need to say?
I spent this weekend mostly asleep because in America, RTO has also meant a return to people coming to work while coughing and sneezing and wheezing and...
Things got ugly / increasingly obviously
I find, that when there is a lot going on and I am trying to understand the whats and the hows and the whos, it is helpful for me to read and to think and...
remembering was never recommended.
Today I learned about Kira Johnson Dixon. This weekend I learned about the self-imposed decision to cut materials about the Tuskegee Airmen and about the...
We mean to be the people we meant to be /
But where are we going to be, and why, and who? The disenfranchised dead want to know. We mean to be the people we meant to be, to keep on going where we...
Can you run away from yourself?
I have had access to the internet since at least 1995. And for all kinds of reasons — how I was educated, my own interests and personality, people I got to...
Play louder.
First real week of January, of 2025. Weeks yet before I will adjust to writing the new date. I made no resolutions. I will make no resolutions (though this...
and the old years blow back / like a wind
Traditions, various: black eyed peas; pig foot souse; twelve grapes; collard greens; champagne; tamales; music; commune; reminisce; reflect; resolve; king...
Today I am the oldest / I have been.
Tis the season to unsubscribe from desperate marketing appeals promising 20% off things you don’t need. Tis the season to make that appointment you’ve been...
we must provide our own guide-posts
RIP, Nikki Giovanni: “I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they’re as brave as my generation was in breaking down...
It is going to be a very hard winter and we all know it in our bones
Decembers are not my favourite month. So, instead of the alternatives: I drink tea and eat cakes with a dear friend, for hours. Read books. Re-read books (or...
it's just around / the corner
Thinking about David Wojnarowicz and Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ross Laycock and Keith Haring and Melvin Dixon. About Freddie Mercury and Eazy-E. About Nancy...
we all want to be / alone, I reply, except when / we do not
Lots going on is a euphemism. Lots going on is a season. In times of lots going on, dive really, really into die cutting and paper crafting. Reduce, reuse,...
let this be the healing
Just as some books find you when you most need them, so does art, so do poems, so do people. People are on the move; they are moving. In the group texts:...
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I get to vote, because of hundreds of pieces of paper painstakingly filled in (except for the ones that must be intentionally left blank); and thousand of...
Remember the dance language is, that life is.
Another last-minute flight home tomorrow, because this is life now. They don’t tell you, when you decide to uproot yourself from the place that you are from,...
intention’s ambush
[Housekeeping note: Taking a rest day]PS: Got that sewing machine though! Special thanks to Lam, Eleanor, Ann, and Erin for their expertise, generously...
I know you / I see you / I hear you
Some things I’ve found inspiration in recently: “How to navigate a maze of perverse incentives without losing yourself. The search for purpose, validation,...
Give me weapons of minute destruction
Challenged by [gestures broadly at everything]. Sustained by the echo of small joys: gallons of tea shared with a friend; long walks in beautiful places;...
perhaps we do well to live with uncertainty.
I am in Trinidad for reasons, some of which required leaving the office on Wednesday at short notice and managing to score the last seat on the flight that...
This is what we have / we do what we can.
What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Me, I find myself reaching for music, back into the depths of the archives. Sometimes it is soca (touchless),...