until history / rewritten resurrected
If you’re the kind of person who would be accurately described by the phrase “Extremely Online” (derogatory), then you’ve seen the memes about millennials...
No wisdom / given to me by anyone.
On my mind / in my bookmarks: archives, and history, and the difference between art and pasticheanalog photo albums as personal history and community archive...
we wanted never / to dream again,
Small victory: after six weeks, CVS Caremark has deigned to allow me to fill the prescription written by my neurologist for the medication that keeps my...
What is that leaping in your chest?
When everything is too much: eat wontons in Flushing, find solace in tea, appreciate the gift of excellent company. Make marks on paper; play with...
Legalized suspicion of my legitimacy
Mahmoud Khalil was inside a university-owned residence Saturday night near Columbia’s Manhattan campus when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly
A checklist for 2025: check titers / re-up on shots against mumps, measles, rubellatell people the HPV vaccine a) saves lives b) is recommended for folks...
hope's a reptile waiting for the sun.
Latest addition to the walls: a Sarah Matthews print of an MLK Jr. quote from his speech on “The Other America”. (I do also recommend watching the video of...
Remember you are all people and all people / are you
In yet another hotel room after two days of transit; one of those long flights with intermittent-at-best WiFi that has you wondering what is happening in the...
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,...