Hope
July 28, 2009
- July 28 JUXTAPOSITION Right next to this world is the globe that I came from. The landmarks are similar but these spheres have little in common. The angle of refraction illuminates the place of my origin. The source of this light is legend. On my home planet, the existence of sobriety is cast off as myth. I held on to this tale with my heart. I slipped the gravitational bonds of ...
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July 27, 2009
- July 27 GRAFT The bottom has been cut out, my underpinnings stripped from me. Budding ambition whittled down, transplanted, saddled onto the rock like stock of other people’s sobriety. Taped to the leg of my sponsor I heal and grow. I splice my thinking with the rich ideas of improved living. I cling to the cleft; divisions made from the people, places and things of my past leave ...
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July 26, 2009
- Those of you that have been following this blog know my grief over the lingering racism that still exists in our nation. Those that think that racism has ended simply have never had to deal with it. The below article I’d gotten from the “Southern Poverty Law Center”… from their “HateWatch” division. The “HateWatch” is listed in my blogroll. SPLC site is ...
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July 24, 2009
- July 24 WAKE Don’t worry that you might spoil the procession by getting out of your coffin. You don’t need to lie there waiting for the lid to close. People will walk past saying, “so sad,” and “too bad,” but don’t lie in state to keep them from feeling their trip was a waste. Just because the crypt has been purchased doesn’t mean you are ready to go. There are still ...
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July 23, 2009
- Will you dare walk with me on this journey of new beginnings founded on hope and beauty of the spirit in the face of challenges and trials that threaten to endanger our love and cherishment for one another across this hurting world we live in each new day? I see visions of glory andwonders across the earth.I view breath-takinglandscapes far awayfrom home.I view your loveand tears throughthis ...
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July 23, 2009
- July 23 QUICK------SAND!!! “Don’t ask me how deep the quicksand is,” said my sponsor, “it’s your job to get out of it, not to quantify it.”“I’m not sure how to get out. Will you come and get me?” I ask her.“No, Darling. If I get in we will both be down for the count. The only chance we have for me to help you is if I stay out of the morass with my feet planted ...
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July 22, 2009
- One day before my novel – The Crying Tree – was born, I was home washing windows, planting flowers, sweeping, dusting. In other words, I was nesting: doing everything I could to get things in order before my baby’s birth. But unlike the day my son was born, once my book was out, it’d be on its own. I remember how strange it felt when The Crying Tree first started making its rounds to ...
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July 21, 2009
- I’m a sucker for an inspired speech and President Obama’s address to the NAACP last week knocked me flat. When I thought I could be moved no further, he reduced me to uncommon tears: "I don't come from a lot of wealth. I got into my share of trouble as a kid. My life could easily have taken a turn for the worse. But that mother of mine gave me love; she pushed me, and cared about my ...
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July 20, 2009
- I'm tired of death. As Huntington pointed out to me the other day, people are always dying. However this summer it feels like many celebrities are dying. Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon, Gale Storm—all have died in the past three weeks. Walter Cronkite died on Friday. Yesterday, another death made me so sad: Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize winner of Angela's Ashes, died ...
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July 14, 2009
- Ever since President Obama nominated Judge S. Sotomayor to replace Justice Souter, Republicans have been looking for something to criticize this appointment. Republicans have attempted to show that Judge Sotomayor is a racist, believing her heritage to be superior to that of white males. Today, in the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson has encapsulated what is patently absurd in that argument.I ...
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