2 confessions and a few possibilities — Trump signs and police cars scare me. White strangers holding BLM signs scare me too. All have hurt me. They are the unknown. On his way out he filled the door frame of the brightly lit, noisy, fraternity party, saw me, and decided to stay. He serenaded me with the…

Does anger work for our cause — Dear Beloved Community, We have learned how we can die from this pandemic and kill in this war, now we must learn how we may live. We must learn social distancing and individual heroism without emotional and community distancing. We must cross our empathy desert and rediscover each other as…

Oscillation — Delicious tiny kernels of relief suspended among a deluge of sadness. Bile blends with their sweet taste leaving chemical sludge mind. For the first time I contemplate Evil. I am. It is. We are. Before, relativity left the world free and I alien. Politeness pushes isolation. …

Thank you for the show, Triple H — “ Now it’s been ten thousand years Man has cried a billion tears For what, he never knew, now man’s reign is through But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight So very far away, maybe it’s only yesterday…” In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) Zager and Evans This…

Surviving rising for what is right — They made Baidu shovel you out of their sight and sound but not their minds. They made Tencent plant night shade around your messages. better mushrooms took root. They made Alibaba drop a banded krait in your path. she ate herself to make way for you. Yinglong awaits your command…

Dad’s happy place — Don’t worry, this rap story did not feature bitches and hos nor end with drive by gun shots and crying mommas. It featured Dad and ended with personal triumph. For close to a year, Dad watched them build the Culpeper Walmart Supercenter from the blocks and blocks length hole to…

A call to action from creator to creator — “When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create.” Pak sad boy, he don’t like you like that ferris wheel double ticket rides rowing to the center of cayuga lake in the rickety, maybe might sink…

A Realist’s suggestions about Medium victory blocks — Last weekend was my fiance Jake’s birthday, and he asked me to get a Wegman’s huge sheet cake instead of their round cake that fed less people. He wanted to make sure everyone received as much as they wanted. …

My two cracks at a spiritual, Black woman space — We slowly piled into the small, mustard yellow room crowded with an over-sized meeting table, plastic chairs, a white board on a stand, and a side table with soda pop and the traditional veggie plate. You know the kind… where no one ate the broccoli, and the carrots disappeared quickly…