glass shards
each of us isa jagged shardof broken glasswith razor sharpedges that cutdeep on all sidesinto the skin.we hurt each otherobserve the paingrateful that weare not the oneswho hurt today.
2907, 2025
2207, 2025
Divide and conquer
This is a summary of my recent learnings of North American history in context of contemporary events. Studying history has opened the time aperture through which I look at our current situation. I am reticent to admit my negligence in considering the past prior to this year. To understand the authoritarian state of the US today, we cannot look back
1507, 2025
No Politics Around the Campfire
In late September 2002, on a campground in Southwestern New Hampshire, United States I sat around a small fire in the woods with some of my best friends. We all met for the first time 5 years prior. We bonded over live music, and pro-wrestling. Our host’s brother in-law, a self-avowed nazi, was joining for the weekend. Dennis, the self-avowed
0907, 2025
Freedom “from” versus “to”
Growing up with a modicum of privilege in the United States during the end of the 20th century we dreamed of the things we could do with our freedom, “to.” We could leave home to make riches and buy big cars, big houses, big boats, big vacations. We had big dreams for things. In those times we took our freedoms,
0107, 2025
Fear and the biology of our human brains
What causes some to be more fearful than others? When two people are exposed to the same stimulus under the same conditions why does one person respond with panic, isolation, and defensiveness? While the other responds with calm, curiosity, and resolve? Research indicates that more grey matter in the anterior cingulate cortex equals more liberal, less fearful responses. Larger right
2406, 2025
Getting to Work in the Community
This weekend I did a job I had never done before. I’m not talking about a job on the other side of the shop, or org chart. I’m talking about completely new and different work to me. I went to work with people whom I had never before worked, materials I had never handled, technologies I had never seen, and
1706, 2025
Fear, Loneliness, and Your Neighborhood
I have cut drivers off who are just trying to merge into traffic. I have walked into buildings and not held the door open for the person behind me. I have emptied my shopping cart and not put the cart in the “return cart here” coral. I have examined apples in the produce section without being welcoming to the others