PinnedMember-onlyWhat’s Freedom Got To Do With It?Guaranteed freedom income — “Give me liberty, or give me death!” Patrick Henry, American politician and orator Is liberty given or earned? Does one or the other method make it any more rich and joyful? Right now, cities, states, and countries experiment with guaranteed freedom income, a paid opportunity to work toward your capabilities…Economics2 min read
PinnedMember-onlyDid I Enjoy Sex With White Supremacists?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…This Happened To Me5 min read
Published in Long-Term Perspective·Mar 27Member-onlyHow We Can Bridge Our Social DistanceDoes 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…Essay3 min read
Published in Scrittura·Mar 27Member-onlyAnger Turned InwardOscillation — 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. …Poetry3 min read
Mar 25Member-onlyThey Landed On The Moon, And You Became OursThank 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…Triple H2 min read
Mar 25Member-onlyMahola, KeanuSurviving 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…Culture2 min read
Published in Microcosm·Mar 24Member-onlyDiddy Diddy BopDad’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…Rap3 min read
Published in Move Me Poetry·Mar 20Member-onlyAnswer Your Calling To Make Something HappenA 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…Pak3 min read
Mar 18Member-onlyYou Are Right; It’s Mostly ImpossibleA 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. …Writing5 min read
Mar 18Member-onlyWhat Is Freedom To An Older Black Woman With A Mean Mother-In-Law?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…Family5 min read
