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When The Only Thing We Need Is To Get Out of Our Own Way

Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash Seek the questions. There is no right answer. James Thurber once said, “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” I believe in this 14-word...

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A 12-Step Approach to Anti-Racism for White People

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash Shawshank Redemption beckons us; the Big Book gives us a path “And if you’ve come this far, maybe you’re willing to come a little further.” That one line Andy writes to...

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I Feel Bad About Black People’s Necks

A plea to Nora Ephron Dear Nora, So far, 2020 is more harrowing than The Handmaid’s Tale, which became all the rage as a web TV series for reasons that will become clear. I limit my news intake and...

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metamorphosis

Photo by Andrea Schettino on Pexels.com A cockroach chows down on a shard of Mar’s bar stuck to a wrapper. My toes a few feet from the object of my phobia. My brain struggles to access the file on...

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Lighting a Candle in the Church of Bradbury

Collage by Jodi Barnes Help us end this tired fiction. Invoke an arc to leap the page. The boorish villain all fume and rant cannot be saved. Salve our radiant burns. Spare us petulant rage. Graft...

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things i still hate

It’s 2:47 a.m. I have this overwhelming urge to write my hate list: things I tell myself shouldn’t bother me, but they do. The dog (above) is not my dog, but I’d like to pretend she is transcribing my...

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Complicity

Kelly Neil photo on unsplash It’s simple. I don’t have to be afraid anymore. Everyone is dead or dying. Even two million ova of the unborn entombed inside my 3-month-old granddaughter. We’re simple....

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Dear White Leader

You can have good intentions, a great education and a progressive plan. But if you can’t humble yourself, if you won’t listen or ask, if you’re not ready to be wrong, to take off your game face and...

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The Value of Color

Earworm by author Embracing Art as Meta-Metaphor I’ve always loved color. I have no other perspective than mine, about 61 years in the making, changing. So I’ve no idea, for example, how many people...

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Thank you, 2020

Photo by Rojan Maguyon on pexels.com Your time is not up. But I wanted to let you know that I know you are not the villain. You are a container of time. A time begat from all past time. You are the...

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