Oh, Africa – how you call to me.
Shine a Light on Slavery (by ENDITMovement)
great trauma work song
“I’m working on my faults and cracks / filling in the blanks and gaps / when I write them out they don’t make sense / I need you to pencil in the rest.”
I never knew daylight could be so violent.
Hung out with Toby the therapy dog at work today.
“We are not a post-racial society. We are a society in which a few people of color have made extraordinary accomplishments and are then used as shields to defend against claims of racism. We also live in a world in which violence against women and girls is epidemic and cataclysmic.”
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/rev-wil-gafney-phd/quvenzhane-wallis_b_2758373.html)
“It is doubtful that God can use a man greatly until He hurts him deeply.”
“Just as forcing a diseased tomato plant to produce fruit may result in the destruction of nearby plants, so also forcing reconciliation when repentance is not present may result in more injustice and deception.”
weapons into plowshares
Dr John Perkins & Gary Haugen (Justice Conference 2013)
“Superficiality is the curse of our age…The desperate need today is not for a great number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”
the wind
Me:What do you think the wind eats?
5-year-old daughter:I think it eats smells.
3-year-old daughter:I think it eats tacos.