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Category: Racial and social justice

A small sailboat has run aground on a sand dune, pointing towards a drooping American flag. The image is in shadowy black and white.
July 4, 2025July 5, 2025Racial and social justice

Wrong Direction

Photo title: “Wrong Direction” Orleans, MA 2025.07.04

Zoomed-in shot of the setting sun on the horizon, distorted by the atmosphere and surrounded by bright red-orange clouds.
June 28, 2025July 5, 2025Personal philosophy, Racial and social justice

It’s a cruel, cruel summer

So much joy here on Beach of My Heart. The fancy camera is giving me a whole new way to love this place… and to remember the beauty forever, because every year we know this is precious time that may never come again. Fear and loss are here too, always, the flipside of all the […]

My photo of a memorial in Coffeewalk Cemetery: dawn light is the backdrop for a statue of a seated woman with her chin on her hand, looking down in sadness.
March 15, 2025March 15, 2025Racial and social justice

Owner of a broken heart

“To be alive right now is to have a moral injury.” That phrase keeps coming up for me on coffeewalks lately. Looping in my brain. Or maybe it’s my heart… or my soul, if such a thing exists? I think the phrase is mine, but the concept isn’t. Moral injury is the idea that we […]

Photo of a framed US flag, except that instead of white stars on a blue field, the upper left area of the flag contains the word THINK in white all-caps on a blue field.
February 6, 2025February 9, 2025Racial and social justice

New kid, old block

SCENE: A few days ago. Low on sleep, feeling raw because I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t stop fretting about the safety of my loved ones, the future of our nation, Trump and Musk’s cruelty and casual incompetence and swaggering pleasure in power. Now I’m having lunch with a wise […]

The Progress Pride flag, featuring horizontal rainbow stripes with triangular white, pink, light blue, brown, and black stripes at left.
February 2, 2025February 9, 2025Racial and social justice

Whenever, wherever

“Can I ask you… if they come for me… where do you think they’ll take me?” This f*cking heartbreaking question. Today, from my wonderful beloved young trans friend, whose eyes are suddenly about to spill tears in the middle of a discussion that was about politics. But the political is very very personal these days, […]

Photograph of a very cold scene: you are standing on a bridge over a small river, which is entirely covered in ice and snow.
January 25, 2025February 9, 2025Racial and social justice

Never say goodbye

This is not the post I was going to write today. It’s been a rough week, hasn’t it? Waking up every day to a renewed deluge of cruelties. Knowing this is only the beginning. This morning, it all hit me hard. Suddenly I was nearly crying on my coffeewalk. My brain started writing, like it […]

An old, creased, company memorandum form from 1940, with all identifying details removed.
January 23, 2025February 9, 2025Racial and social justice

To Whom It May Concern

MEMORANDUM TO: White people and everyone with relatively greater privilegeFROM: Your fellow privileged white personRE: Efforts to outlaw DEIDATE: Today and every day——————————————Just a reminder: We look at the world around us to assess *how* to continue advancing justice. We do not assess *whether* to continue advancing justice. Yes, we change our methods when that’s […]

Photograph of a snowy graveyard on a sunny day. We are looking at a granite gravestone with many generation of names engraved on it.
January 20, 2025February 9, 2025Racial and social justice, Uncategorized

Hopscotch

Today. MLK Day. Inauguration day, which I won’t capitalize. Sometimes, as I coffeewalk through the cemetery part of my loop, I think about the aphorism “The days are long, but the years are short.” People say it about parenting, but I think it’s true in a broader sense too. I’m holding onto that now. Look […]

Elvis Presley's black and white Army enlistment photo, with the contrasts and shadows amped up so details are lost and Elvis is very, very white.
December 14, 2024February 9, 2025Racial and social justice

Why can’t you see

I saw Elvis a couple of weeks ago. It did not go well. Everything started off fine. M and I had gotten tickets to take my mom and stepdad to a tribute band at a winery in nearby New Hampshire. Just a fun little holiday outing, especially for my mother who can still recite Elvis’s […]

December 13, 2024Racial and social justice

Who’s at risk when we play it safe?

Right after the election, I got to speak on The Redress Movement‘s panel about Building Racial Redress Into Housing Justice. They invited me on behalf of my client organization’s homeownership initiative that provides down-payment assistance specifically for first-time buyers who identify as Black and/or Latino… which begs the question, why bother listening to me if […]

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