Want to find Courage? Let compassion be your compass. Don’t go looking for the one yelling the loudest at the front of the crowd, Courage isn’t always some powerhouse full of fire and fury. Courage is often a quiet thing who visits us in daily decisions and unsung moments. Courage is the girl sold on the street by one of her mother’s boyfriends before she was 14, who … [Read more...] about Courage/Ometz Lev
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Handwork – The Blues
🧵Stitching The Blues🪡 Mixed media experiments — stitched and felted hand dyed wool, remnants of my Nana Ana Brom’s hand dyed silks (and her thread scissors), beads & a tiny message in a bottle sealed with beeswax. … [Read more...] about Handwork – The Blues
Allegory of the Long Spoons
Imagine that hell is a dinner party. There is a long table in a grand hall filled with delicious food but the guests are miserable. No one is able to eat because they are forced to use long spoons that cannot reach their mouths. They have so much but they are still starving and suffering. Imagine that heaven it’s a dinner party. There is a long table winding … [Read more...] about Allegory of the Long Spoons
On Distance: Paul Robeson and the Rolling River of Resistance
This is a story about distance, that is a story of resistance, as most stories worth telling are. It is both a warning and reminder that words have power to unite or divide, heal or harm. Take for example the distance between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter. Whole lifetimes and generations of meaning exist between these six words. Words that wound, hold histories … [Read more...] about On Distance: Paul Robeson and the Rolling River of Resistance
Care/Carry/Cure an essay from ‘You Care Too Much’
In June of 2016 I supported my love Chris as we dealt with the death of both his parents and a co-worker over a three week period. This essay written the summer of those deaths is my attempt to make sense of grief and the struggle to carry all that I care for. Originally published in the anthology You Care Too Much by with/out pretend, the essay Care/Carry/Cure is now … [Read more...] about Care/Carry/Cure an essay from ‘You Care Too Much’
