It has been a ridiculous week where I did find myself as a Black and Indigenous woman having to act for my kids’ school to write a racism statement and then act to do something as momentum about racism was already dwindling. The one community conversation quickly steered and was symbolized with a complaint that […]
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It Starts With Values
I could say this week has been a whole thing, this lifetime, or these 401+ years – they all follow the same course. Hello everyone. I am a human. Just like you are a human I am a human. I should not have to work for this fact to be normalized, yet here we are […]
Ancestors, Diaspora, and Belonging
Growing up I did not have much family. My mother’s Black family disowned her when she married my father from Panama. My grandmother called me “the brown one” until I was 19 when she realized I was sticking with the college thing but she still wasn’t necessarily nice to me. My father’s adoptive White family […]
HAPPY EARTH DAY
Happy Earth Day everyone. I have seen the online stratosphere gearing up for today with the most American way that it can… sales!!! I am compassionate enough to recognize that as a culture we do not have many more ways to celebrate anything than to buy things for it, try to recreate manicured Pinterest boards […]
Eight Years: A Love Letter
Perfect in its unpredictability we drove out to the San Luis Valley from Denver on Saturday morning to celebrate our wedding anniversary weekend. This is a two lane road that we were on in this picture. Note the lack of visibility. Note how bright the day was. Oh Colorado. We paused in Salida for some of […]
Tops of 2013
As the year winds down I am grateful for many experiences. I did not blog about all of them (see my previous post for more about that) but here is a list. It is a good list that makes my heart happy. My Top 10 Highs for 2013 (in no particular order) Completed our […]