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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Several times a week I find myself sitting down to work on the things I decided were my priorities for the day and all of a sudden unable to sit still. I start seeing something that needs to be washed or organized or another project idea that comes up that I should tackle. It’s a…
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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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like black butterflies 