Image description: two pumpkins carved into jack-o-lanterns sit on crates outside of a brownstone in Brooklyn, NY. One pumpkin is carved to look like face with a jagged smile, the other is carved with the message “15/HR.” I stand with workers & this pumpkin demanding $15/hr and a union so Read more
Today I’m celebrating our interdependence, not celebrating colonization and genocide. I was introduced to the work of Melissa K. Nelson yesterday and I haven’t been the same since. Sometimes someone puts into language an idea or a knowing that I’ve had without having access to words to adequately describe it. Read more
Back in 2018, THERETHEN published a limited edition chapbook of mine called resistance is beautiful. Over the years, the poems have morphed and the chapbook became a full-length manuscript. (It’s sitting in a binder over there waiting for someone to decide to publish it.) Eventhough some of these poems were Read more
Sunday January 10, 2021 5:51 am You say you want a revolution? It’s a revolution alright. All I keep seeing and knowing again and again is to sit with it, be with the discomfort. Allow the anger and pain to arise and be with it, be in it. Above all, Read more
I’ll be co-facilitating a cycle of MBSR with Jon Aaron soon. Offered online through Mindful Leader on Fridays 12-2:30 pm (EST) from February 19th through April 9th, 2021. The orientation session (required to participate in the course) will be Friday February 12th. The all-day practice session will be Sunday March Read more
Just the other day I was turned on to this Lucille Clifton poem, “Won’t you celebrate with me” by a colleague at work and now I’m grateful to be seeing, hearing and feeling it everywhere: Inspired By “What Is Left” 2020 @brooklynhiartmachine (artists Mildred Beltre and Oasa DuVerney) in collaboration with @bricbrooklyn the installation Read more
Image description: abstract botanical image created from names of some of the more than 183,000 people who’ve died in the U.S. from COVID-19 “Fauci debunks theories of low CDC coronavirus death toll: ‘There are 180,000-plus deaths’ in U.S.” CNBC, September 1, 2020 “Covid-19 death skepticism, explained by a cognitive scientist” Read more
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)Free Orientation: Wednesday July 29, 2020 | 6:30 – 9:00 pm EST(required if you intend to register for the class)Course Sessions: Wednesdays, August 5 – September 23, 2020 | 6:30 – 9:00 pm ESTPractice Day: Saturday, September 12, 2020 | 9:30 am – 5:00 pm EST What Read more
Image description: burning candle flame on black background with white text. Text reads: 24 hour vigil and reading of names for those lost to COVID-19. May 20-21 2-2pm EST #NamingTheLost A 24 Hour COVID Vigil. For more information and to submit information about a loved one who’s died from COVID-19 Read more
“J. Crew up in here one more time & we gon’ United Colors of Benetton all on your ass.“ That’s how I dream. I understand what my mind was trying to say, lol, bad metaphor though– I never could afford one of those Benetton sweaters. That marketing though! What a Read more