a journey of transformation
“The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth…”
-from bell hooks’ ‘All About Love: New Visions’
I’ve been in a funny mood all day. Yes, times are strange, we’re in a pandemic, we’ve been home for months, and things will likely never be the same as they were prior to this. It’s unsettling. But today, in particular, I felt strange: I watched youtube videos of gospel music. I’m not religious. I…
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This is from a chapter authored by someone who experience childhood sexual abuse, and although that has never been my experience, the paragraphs at the end of the chapter deeply resonated with me. This was specific to the author’s timeline of arriving at college, this narrative could just as easily have been superimposed on my…
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January Was offered a second contract to do evaluation work–boosts my resume and gives me some extra income to help pay the bills Was the teaching assistant for a master’s level class Worked with an awesome team to conduct some groundbreaking qualitative research on police violence in New Orleans February Had an awesome Mardi Gras–went…
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In exactly one week I will break my year-long commitment to sobriety. In exactly one week I will be 30 years old. Over the course of the year being sober has been revealing, but maybe not in the ways that people would expect. But backing up, how did I get here? Why would I decide…
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like black butterflies 