Frozen Toothpaste

CMP73
I noticed recently that I do this rather strange thing. I’ll think thoughts, and then I’ll restate them again as if I were speaking them. Even when I’m not speaking. Even when I’m the only one around.
It’s as if I have to “say” everything in order for me to have really thought it. That is, […]

Powi
It happened yesterday for the first time. For the first time in months I recognized that winter was fading and spring was coming. It’s not coming quick or earlier than usual, but it’s coming and the first signs were there.
The mid-morning walk offered some clues. It’s been getting warmer out. Recently, a hat and gloves […]

This is the first part of a two-part argument that I seem to be constantly having with myself. The second half, Writing is Useful, will be posted on Thursday.
D’arcy Norman
If this site exists for one reason, its for me to write. If it exist for a second reason, it’s so I’ll be listened to. If […]

White privilege, as you may know,
is a sociological concept describing the advantages enjoyed by white persons beyond what is commonly experienced by the non-white people in those same social spaces (nation, community, workplace, etc.). It differs from racism or prejudice by the fact that a person benefiting from white privilege need not hold racist beliefs […]

Sarah Murray
It’s not as easy as it sounds, doing nothing. It’s too easy to think of all that you could be doing. All that you should be doing. In a country that seems to possess a cultural bias against stillness, doing nothing can feel dangerous. Immoral even.
It will also help, if you want to do […]