Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

I am in the middle of reading a fun book. It’s not very good, actually, but it is fun. I was more than halfway through it before something struck me about it. The characters were texting and using a telecam. Which, in the normal way of things, wouldn’t be all that odd — except this [...]

I don’t know what to think. I am anti-war, but is a “humanitarian” war better than an offensive or defensive war? I think, often, the same people wind up losing out in the end. Still, you see and hear stories of people being killed and maimed and wondering where “the West” is, how come we [...]

Yes, after I wrote last week about my favorite tools and mentioned that 750 Words was not on the list, though I did like it – I went back to it! And I’ve been writing there every day. I think its primary attraction, for me, is that there is nothing else there to think about [...]

One puzzling question I’ve been seeing, reading various poliblogs, goes something like – where is the far Left in this country (U.S.)? My immediate thought – well, it’s right here, in many on and offline communities of color, in Labor, in some feminism, in some liberalism. In other words, pretty much where it’s always been [...]

When did the History Channel become the Armageddon Channel?

Which is also undone, for that matter. Looking around my house this afternoon I noticed that my fridge is freshly cleaned but my kitchen is a mess; all the laundry is washed and dried, but not put away; my mom is all washed and in bed, but her bathroom is only partly cleaned; cat is [...]

I’ve been looking at quotations. Phrases and thoughts disconnected from their original settings and placed in isolation – or rather, a sea of isolation as they space with thousands and thousands of other fragments of related, but not connecting, phrases. How do they decide what goes in, I wonder. Most sources quoted are, of course, [...]

I don’t know why. Also, I don’t know if it’s an important topic in most Black circles and I just never really paid attention, or if it’s just that there is a whole different dynamic to the issue due to our history and so -while the caring is there – it doesn’t manifest itself in [...]