When we hear the phrase “they are a good communicator,” we often assume that means the person being referred to has a way with words and chooses them so that their audience understands their message clearly. [Read More]
Unclear Cuts 3: Before and After
As Onandaga Chief Oren Lyons testified at the United Nations in 1993, “We don’t call a tree a resource. We don’t call a fish a resource. We don’t call a bison a resource. We call them our relatives.” [Read More]
Survivors Lead us Beyond the Gunfire
As spring’s door opened young activists organized hundreds of rallies and marches, speaking through tears of grief to multitudes who are fed up with darkness. [Read More]
The Path Next Taken
These are the days when the bright young hopes of our collective future have become commodities. Higher education has become a damned if you do and damned if you don’t scenario of debt vs. future prospects. [Read More]
Hell-Mouth High
Why did North American mass-consumer culture elect to abandon its youth to bash their way through the pubertal wilderness without meaningful mentorship and a supportive community to embrace them when they emerge as new adults? [Read More]
Civics lesson on the legacy of shame
I could not control my unexpected tears seeing that this is the new reality for these people the press and politicians keep mislabeling by calling them “kids.” [Read More]
Learning to Swim
I am one of the few people living on the north Oregon coast with direct ancestry to slavery from Africa. Fewer than two percent of the north coast population is African-American. [Read More]
Teachings in Trauma
These things we call miracles, healings, or unexplainable woo-woo are real and innate aspects of us as human beings living in this world.
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Where are the songs?
That was then and this is now,
with a world still living with too much the same.
Times moving faster, disparities widening, racism raising,
reeling, searching for an anthem, trying to find the right song…
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11/9
America’s presidential elections are grand sporting events. Since my youth I’ve heard people talk about Republicans and Democrats as if they’re arch-rivals in football. The drawbacks of this two-team league became blatantly clear to many of us when they nominated Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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