The woman was recording her podcast from Australia where she’d just immigrated. She was laying on her bed and trying to get her pillow comfortable. That’s what she was doing when she said this. It rattled me so completely that I forgot her name. It’s not an exact quote either. It’s what I can remember. … Continue reading She just told me how to be a real ally. (groan) It’s what I was afraid of.
Category: Grapplings
What I can’t get out of my mind
I can’t seem to get it out of my head. I’m sitting here quietly, trying to rest my mind and prepare for the meeting coming up. But there are ghosts raging through my head that won’t be laid down. They’re apparitions from the insurrection last week. They rage and rant. They scream and chant. The… Continue reading What I can’t get out of my mind
A Hope that armed insurrection was the last loud climax
Wednesday Jan 6. We won’t forget that day very quickly. In spite of their protestations today that all the violence was from BLM and antifa, (what?) the Proud Boys and Q-Anon people showed their colors. It was, I guess, the “storm” Q-Anon has been planning for since 2017. For awhile all their fantasies got played… Continue reading A Hope that armed insurrection was the last loud climax
Arkansas Post-Election: Who the heck are we?
The polls were looking good there for a while. Guess they still are nationally. But the Arkansas Poll came out yesterday and ruined my fantasy of a purple Arkansas moving toward progressive. Arkansas Poll 2020 report from KARK.COM News Arkansas Poll 2020 Summary Report https://www.kark.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/85/2020/10/2020-summary-report.pdf Here’s a quote that’s not surprising, but is still distressing:… Continue reading Arkansas Post-Election: Who the heck are we?
Pondering conversations with Trump voters
This isn’t what I want to be thinking about this week. I’d rather think about transformational networks. But this article came up that – to me – answers a question lots of us have been wrangling over. How to understand the Trump voters in our lives and our communities. This blog writer has a perspective I was longing for. He called it a “White coming …. “